The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-29

Every one of the six murdered Mace
dcnians found in the old shack at 245
Tenth avenue s yesterday was stricken
down in the night by band of de-
termined murderers who had followed
their victims from northern Mime
sofa.
This is the conclusion after a days
work by the Minneapolis and Duluth
police departments, based on revela-
tions exclusively published by I'll Q
J urnal yesterday. There was no
chance fight according to this theory.
The wholesale slaughter was a DELHI
crate and long planned murder, COM
mitted with weapons purchased in
Duluth for the purpose.
A week ago the six murdered men
came to Minneapolis from Alborn,
winters wages and were to come here
to be sent out on other work. They
went to the house engaged some time
ago by their leader and were staying
there when the nurderers found them.
The murderers were members of the
same crew at Alborn. They knew of
the money drawn by the six men and
followed them with the deliberate In
tention of numbering them for their
money. They purchased their knives in
Duluth, descended on their victims in
with friends in Chicago.
But one filled money belt was found
in the house where the killing was done.
This contained $500 and had been con-
cealed in the mattress. Two empty
money belts were found and the cloth
ing on several Of the bodies had been
torn open as if the murderers had taken
their belts. All this points to robbery.
So positive are the police that the
murder was not the result of sudden
braw], that the chief work from now on
will be the following up Of this clue.
r.. Knives Are Traced.
The murder was committed with six
brand new knives, all exactly alike, Of
the same make, and were in the hands
of from four to six blood-thirsty fellow
countrymen.
The police know where the knives
were purchased. Police Superintendent
Doyle, at first hampered by not know
ing where the knives came from, re-
cei;ved a telegram from the Duluth po-
lice today saying they were purchased
there.
A hardware merchant there has told
the police that within a week four OF
five men, all Macedonians or Greeks.
came into his store and purchased six
hunting knives Of the latest pattern,
and are undoubtedly the ones found
beside the murdered bodies yesterday:
The police have found five of these and
the other may be found before night
With seven Of the original crew de;
| tanned in Duluth, where they are held
as witnesses, and with much. valuable
| the mystery, is fast being dispelled.
- Trail Of Blood Found.
The strongest thread in the net tina
is closing about the Macedonian muir
| derers was furnished bv Detectives Pas
solt, johnson and Lyons this morning
when they found trail of blood lead
ing from the house of slaughter, across
the street, thru an alley and out ontt
Washington avenue. This shows tn
direction taken by at least one of tn.
murderers who is now hiding witt
friends. The trail starts at the from
door of the dismal shanty and lead
into an alley running alongside the Of!
plant of the Minnesota Linseed Oh
company. There is only drop nov
a murderer would naturally take an
leads out onto Washington avenue blu
hundred feet from the viaduct an
the tracks.
The blood may not have come from
wound on the person, but more likel..
from his hands, which were drippin,
4 with the blood Of his victim. This mai
escaped Sunday night and all of tn
!, detectives are convinced that the tw
Demitris were killed then. A man liv
i ing in fat at Washington avenue an
Tenth avenue s, was sitting in his room
late Sunday, when he saw man ru
from the house of the Macedonian
across the street and disappear into tn
4 alley, where the blood trail was found
Immediately after this man was seen,
light in the front window of the hous
either went out or was carried away.
!: Post Mortems Are Held.
Il A post norton was held on the bodie
at the morgue this forenoon, and alth
nothing out of the ordinary was dir
covered DR.. G. M. Kistler thought tina
the bodies of the two Demetris ha
been dead perhaps twenty four hour
: longer than the others. This strength
ems the belief that they were the frs
and real object of the murder, altho til
six men who purchased the knives i
5 Duluth may have attacked all six of til
men in their sleep.
The bodies are literally slashed an
hacked to pieces, and the fact that som
of the murderers escaped would tend
show that the victims had been 'poorl
armed.
One theory is that they were a
facknd in fhnir alenn and that fhp