The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-24

figures IS and 2Ss, evidently the size stamp
and the laundry mark. There was no mark
OF any kind on the n~ightshirt. The length
Of turkey red cloth which had 9 found
about the newspaper ~wrappings OF the
t ,ss' S dSS sI%s gave E. the TTst P peip6 S,Se Of SS
Police H~eadquarters, who first worked on
the assumption that the parpetrator and
victim Of the murder were Italians, found
a contradiction to his theory in the red
cloth. After examining il closely he said
that 10 was Of q weave h Is never made
outside Of Syria and that is much Affected
by Syrians For household decorations.
II was upon the grain ack in which the
trunk had been found that the first bit OF
tangible evidence was discovered. The sack
was found to be a new one, In which no
particle Of any grain or cereal could be
found. It was stamped across the front
e. X, Mano, 81 Washington street; Pearl
Wheel Flour"
On n side Of this stamp. in markings
90 faint as to be almost illegible, were three
characters In a foreign script. Fred Fey
ard, a Syrian youth who lives at % Rector
street, was brought in by the detectives to
identify the saok and tell what he knew
about the script On the face OF IT,. Without
hesitation Feyard said hat the three ain
characters were Syrian, but they were so
indistinct that he could not decipher their
meaning. He believed that they merely
told the number OF bushels that could be
put into the sack.
Foyard gave the detectives more informa-
ton. He said that the name z; 4. Mano
m the sack was that OF an Armenian grocer
and grinder Of pistachio nuts and mani
facturer Of -four, who had run a manu-
factory at 7 to 0 Bedford street and a store
at OF Washin gton street. Mano died lately.
At one time Feyard had been a drayman In
the employment OF Mano and consequently
knew something about the details OF his
business.
SEEING Up THE SACK.
Mano, Feyard said, used to send pistaohic
nuts and wheat from his establishment al
OF Washington street up to the Bedford
street mill to be ground, using always THU
kind Of sack. The sacks would not come
the -four and ~pistachio product was brought
back in fine bags and boxes.
Feyard said also that the Pearl brand Of
-four, advertised in the stamp on the sack
was used only by Syrian bakers and res,
taurant keepers. He said that he believed
have been added after the sack had left
Mano's possession, since ManO was an
Armenian and did not know how to write
the Syrian language.
The police from other sources got more
light on these points. They learned thai
ZAohiel x. Mano kept the grocery store al
81 Washington street fol four years up to
two months ago, when he died. After his
death his wife tried to carry on the bust
ness, but decided to give il up and two
weeks ago had all the stock sold on at auc
ton. 1t consisted mainly OF wheat, -four
olives, pistachio nuts and some foodstutff
eaten mainly by Syrians. Mano had a big
business with Syrian stores in suburban
towns, and in fact the greater amount OF
his trade was with small storekeepers out
OF the city.
A-okA.w 80 kka 0rNNoryunan Whn liant o
candy store at 1S9 Eighth ave nue, left town
suddenly a month and a half ago, and il
believed to be in Boston. The candy store
in Eighth avenue is in b hands OF John
Drandats, who bought it from Mano two
months z O Drandats said that Mano
sold him the store for $40 down and dis
appeared Immediately with his family
going 30 suddenly that he left all his house
hold goods. Drandats soon learned tina
there was a mortgage on the store, which
Mano had given under the name OF SarkiI
Ia krian.
MRS. MANo DEEPENs PUZZLE.
Mrs. Mano, the widow Of the grocer, II
stopping at 401 Henry street, Brooklyn
She told Detective Sergeant Doran anC
reporters who called to see her last nigh
that she had closed out the business tive
weeks ago and sold at auction sixty.tv'
bags of pearl wheat, UGH as Ia 5 by
Italians, Syrians and Armenians to MAKE
q breakfast mash. q,
She said that the sixty-fve bags were al
purchased by Beshara Ganem, a grocer al
So Washington street. Mrs. Mano says
that none OF the bags was new as far as an,
bakers that her husband had sold the fouI
to and collect old bags In order to pack thu
stun before the sale.
The Syrian writing on the bag Mrs. Man'
could not explain and she declared thai
neither her husband nor any OF the mel
ouoplnvaA hv him nOuld Writa SYRIAN He
husbands name on the sack, she explained
had been placed there by the milling com
pany in Rochester from which be bough
the wheat.
c. W. Pearson OF Rochester was tn
manufacturer Of the crushed wheat solC
by Mano. The wheat vas bagged there
and sent here with MRno's name stampe'
on the bags. Mrs. far said that nothing
additional was ever put on the bags exceP
the mark % the grade 81 wheat, which
consisted Of only one letter; The las
consignment received from the Pearson
firm came In July.
Mrs. Mano was inclined 10 think that
perhaps the body might be that OF her
brother-in-law John. He left for Boston
several days ago, but Mrs. Mano said tina
her cousin HRrtootlian, a rug dealer a.
"a Union Square. had sent her word tina
John had not shown up in Boston as ex
pected.
NIoHT ALARMS.
The only other clue that the detective
could find yesterday was that given b,
Philip Fitzpatrick Of 500 West Thirty-sixt
street, who is a night Waterman with
| district in the New York Central yard
along the river between West Thirty-sixt
and Thirty-seventh streets. Fitzpatric
told the detectives that at 23O o'clock yes
terday morning he heard the barking {
two OF his dogs over in h direction {
Thirty-sixth street and Eleventh avenue
This is the place where the body was foun
in the pit later in the morning.
Fitzpatrick said that he went over. {
investigate but found nothing, though hi