The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-03-29
A CHASTITY TRAGEDY
The Dead Bodies of Six Greek Labor
ers, Horribly Slashed, Found
in Minneapolis House.
A Terrible Fight in Which it is Sup
posed That Twelve lien Were
Engaged With Knives.

Engaged With Knives.
Wholesale murder was committed at
243 Tenth avenue south, Minneapolis,
some time between Monday night and
Wednesday morning. The horrible
butchery was discovered Wednesday
morning. Four bodies were found in
room on the second floor and two
were in the basement. The six muir
dered men are supposed to be Greek
or Italian railroad laborers, and the
murderers. it is assumed, were men of
their own nationality. The weapons
employed were dirk knives and a
Ratchet. The following details are
from the Evening Tribune:
"Exactly when the fight occurred is
uncertain, but it is believed that it
was pulled off late Monday night or
early Tuesday morning. Neighbors
heard strange noises late Monday
night coming from the house occupied
by the foreigners and after that time
none of the latter have been seen alive.
Tuesday none of them were seen about
the house. It was not until Wednes-
day morning that b. Magnusson,
owner Of the house, asked for an in
vestigation. Patrolman Peterson of
the South Side station went into the
house and found the dead bodies and
the bloody evidences of the terrible
struggle.
1.-The find was the most CHASTITY ever
made in the annals of the police force
of the city. Huddled in small upper
room, where the fierce battle had taken
place, were four bodies, lying amid
the overturned cots and filthy rags Of
bed clothing that had formed it's scant
furniture. Clasped in the dead hands
or lying near the stifened. blood
smeared bodies were six foot-long
knives, their steel blades DULY red
with films of human blood.
blood was everywhere. The story
of the deadly struggle was written in
scarlet over the entire hovel. Every
body lay in q red-elotted puddle;
splashes Of red were on the broken
windows; bright blotches on the black
ened wall indicated the desperate
whirling fury of the fight; dark stains
showed where some bleeding object
had been dragged along the floor and
down the stairs, at the bottom of
which lay CHASTITY, shimmering pool
From this the scarlet trail led away,
and following it the officers discovered
two more bodies that had been
dragged from upstairs and thrown
into the basement, where they lay to-
gether, their stiffened arms and legs
asprawl, their faces and bodies horri-
bly, slashed, and the clothing Redeemed
and stiff with gore.
'The men concerned in the battle
have been working as railroad hands
in different parts of the northwest.
They were in charge of another one of
their race who could speak English
and went wherever he told them They
worked some time ago near Salem, N. 9
D., on a railroad. Then they went in
a gang to Duluth and worked. Leav-
ing that city they came to Minneapo-
lis last November and have since
made this their headquarters. They
engaged the house in which they met
their deaths last November, paying
several months in advance. They
rented of 81. Magnusson of 1O11 Wash
ington avenue south. He does not
know much about his tenants, how
ever, except that they were railroad
laborers.
Monday night he saw nine men
enter the place. What happened in
side of the house will never be known
unless the men who escaped are cap
tured. It is believed that they are
wounded"
It seems hardly possible that the
murderers will escape, but anything
is possible in Minneapolis under it's
present imbecile administration.