The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-29
SIX MEN VICTIMS OF
 VERY STRANGE MURDER
ALL BULGARIANS AND FOUND IN OLD HOUSE IN MINNIE
 APOLIS.


 Not Robbery as Two Money Belts
 Containing $5O8 In Gold Are Found
 That They Were Killed by Six Other Laborers Who Lived With Them and
 Who Are Missing.
 Minneapolis, March 2S-Six murdered Bulgarian laborers were found to-day in an old house at 245 Tenth avenue South, and the police are uncertain how or when the murders were committed, although the evidence indicates that the men were killed during a fight among twelve Bulgarians who had rented the house.
 The police are convinced that rob- bery was not the motive of the mur ders, as considerable money was found on the bodies. They also scout the idea of any secret society with motives of revenge.
 The dead are said to be Nicolo Dimit- ri, Kirle Dimitri, AgneKarofo, Kerstan Yovko, Unka Naudaba and Baakon Kapanni.
 Four of the bodies, horribly cut and slashed with knives, were found in a room on the second floor, while in the cellar were two others with their threats cut. Near the bodies were found five large bowie knives and hatchet
 All of the men were comparatively young. The names were secured from letters in sacks and satchels found in the room where tho four bodies lay. J. Micklenberg, a drayman, says that Monday afternoon six men asked him to take six packages from the house at 245 Tenth avenue South to the Union station. On arriving at the house he found there were twelve packages, and, after some haggling about the price, he took them to the station. A young man rode on the wagon, while the oth- CT i've men walked The man who rode said the party was going to Duluth. At the station the men were joined by sev- eral other men, a woman and little girl
 1 From this statement the police be- | lieve that the murders were committed some time between midnight Sunday and Monday morning.
 S. Magnuson, owner of the house, says that an Italian rented part of the house four months ago to be used to house twelve railroad iaborers of whom he was foreman. The twelve men nov ed into the house and lived quietly working every day. The men lived, slept and ate their meals in the rooms on the second floor. The Italian fore- man was never seen again by Magnu lson.
 This morning an old German who oc- cupied the first floor of the house told Magnuson that fight had occurred in the upper rooms Sunday night. The German said he had paid little atteh- tion to the fight until he noticed that the occupants of the second floor had gone After informing Magnuson of the fight the German disappeared. Mag nuson informed the police, who broke into the Bulgarians' lodgings. The two bodies in the basement, according to Coroner Kistler, had been dead nearly two days. The bodies in the upper rooms appeared to have been killed more recently.
 The bodies found upstairs were slash ed all over, especially about the faces and the throats. One man had fallen against hot stove and the right side of his face was burned off. Beside this man lay the bloody hatchet Near the bodies found upstairs were two money belts containing $506 in gold. On one of the bodies was found a watch that was still going. Some of the bodies had been stripped.
 Aside from the foregoing facts che police have no information on which to work, although many unverified rumors are under Investigation. In two satchels found in the house was a regalia consisting of caps, robes and kerchiefs containing characters and emblems, which, it is thought may have belonged to an order of the Greek l church. There were also several relig- ious emblems and a biscuit with em- blems on one side and picture of a saint on the other.
 There were two sets of lines robes and caps on which sacred pictures were crudely printed.