The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-27
IVTRIAN CUT up BROTHER,
SAY HEADLESS BODY
"xVSTrRI rs SOLVED.

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20. la fig fros. 10 replace, the police
~. the Columbus oilcloth which he
e~,arnei a,ound the headless body OF
Z. brother ir,m TashJian, or Markarian'
" Armenian. got or a Tenth avenue car at
[tL,.Aftb ST rret last night on his way
u ~. homo ~ f8 Eleventh avenue. across
N ",r.ot from the spot where the mutt
w. oorns WI. found on Sunday morning.
20, noncemrn had been waiting for him
horrs in all the nearby treet Two
i..iyss Mccarthy and Butler OF the
~, TbIr y.se,enth street station, we're
~, corner The man with the oilcIoth
- N rirni and left when the car went
ua saw the detectives n ran up
Tnth avenue
81. rave then n brief tussle, but they were
=. much for him. They hustled him
!. .-,upd 10 tho Thirty-seventh street station
nae and word was sent to Detective Ser
mi M~nCaTerry. in charge Of the sleuths,
~ we're sp-cad over Eleventh emu
"a through Thirty fifth and Thirty-sixth
,rssts. MCIaTerty jumped to the station
Ar,se and got the prisoner. With a couple
Juniforned mon as n body guard, he took
~. man 10 the Eleventh avenue house.
n. takes very little to make a crowd in
u.lI,s Kitchen and McCsfferty and his
nIsoner led a bowling mob to Eleventh
s,arue. Then the beehive like tenements
m the avenue emptied and the street wa
,ammed. There was a shout Of Lynch
him the crowd guessing what had hap
, pened.
The house that the Armenian lived in
and In which il is pretty certain the murder
ms committed is a ak story. double decker
Known in Hell's Kitchen al the House Of
m Nations About three years ago there
vas a FIRE In il that burned twenty-six
oeople IN death, There seemed to be 500
people living there yesterday.
Out Of the house in the morning walked
m Irish woman who met an Irish cop, one
thomas McCowan.
ITS a fine man you are, : she said, mot
b know that something happened In this
= house last Sunday morning that you should
know about.
MCGOWAN smiled on her, and she told
the story. Two foreigners lived on the
third floor and one Of them was gone. gone
, since Sunday Something happened in
their rooms and maybe some Of the other
snants would tell him about il. He might
ind out about the man who made two
TIPS from the house early Sunday morning,
md carried something out with him each
time.
McGowau, honest cop, made some in
uiries and then hunted up his roundsmen,
h Dunn and Deyo. They made a further
Investigation that brought all the precinct
S~etectives and a squad OF Central Office
men to the neighborhood. II was a sur
rie TO the special sleuths, particularly to
Detective McIvor of the West Thirty
seventh street station house, who when
told the story said hat be had talked on
Sunday morning with one Of the Armenians.
who didn't say anything about his brother
being missing.
All the afternoon the detectives searched
the house. They found that the two Ar
menians had three dingy rooms in the rear
on the third floor. There wasn't much
furniture. There was a t~en-year-old boy
10 the rooms, who was frightened but man
aged 10 tell something.
On Saturday evening his two older broth
prs had driven him from the house, telling
him to 60 play, a. they had important things
to talk over. He went out and playe d
until late in the evening, when tired and
weary, he returned. They weren't anxious
to zee him, so he went out again, but he
returned in a very short time and went to
bed.
The next morning, the boy told the de-
~tAcives. there we're reddish stains on the
floor. His brother-theTe was only n OF
them there thcn-told him to get some
bot water and scrub the floor. The boy
got the water and scrubbed and scrubbed
Without doing much good. Then his
brother helped him and, not accomplishing
anything, took a long jackknife and cut
out a square in the oilcloth where the
stains were heaviest. The piece cut from
the oilcloth was about three feet square.
That was all the boy could remember
then. One Of his brothers was d his
other brother had zone 10 work every day
and returned at night. The neighbors
knew that too, for they had seen him
around. They didn't know where he
worked and they weren't sure whether
ne vas a wood pOlisher or a brass polisher.
They were sure that the brother who was
gone was a brass polisher, but they didn't
AnoN where ne ndd worked, elJner. |
In the rooms the DETECTIVES found several
'hngs that interested them greatly and
MADE them sure that they were on the right
ace TO clear mp the murder. In the kitchen
mine wall back Of a small couch there were
SSveral stains that looked very much like
onod. Scattered around the floor, on the
hdges adjoining who're the square Of oilcloth
nsd been cut ont, were spots hat looked
IKE blood. There was no hre in the stove,
guy plenty NJ ashes. The boy noticed them
poklng over the stove and remembered
-%N0ethlng. His brother, after cutting the
ppece o. oilcIoth from the floor, had burned
nat was about AZ much as the detectives
ogld learn. They decided that there was
my one thing for them TO do-wait until
zoe brother returned home. To make
sUe that he shouldn't escape detectives
Lere planted in the rooms. strung out
though the house and posted in the streets
~gund the house for a block.
lnis was the situation when McCafferty
TTucned into the house with the prisoner.
,ey tHnhlnd up the rickety stairs. fall
Hs over women and children, and went
~ the Armenians' rooms. Acting Capt.
.ulnery a dozen detectives and McCafferty
ulsue The Armenian strip to the waist.
MNas COO enough, the dash through the
NUNu MOI having much effect on him.
az uldnt know where his brother was,
- proteste', That brother was a queer
sr IA a man who kept much to himself
u was almost a hermit. He left the
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