The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28

cleaning up. His brother Aram told him
that Markar had gone away and never
would come back. Levon had seen htm
going -four times in the arms Of his brother
From that dav until YESTERDAY tho boy
Levon had hardly dared leave the rooms
where he and his brothers lived. From
the windows on Sunday he had watched
the great crowd OF men and children about
the pit across the street. and he knew what
IL was that they had hoisted out OF the
ground with a derrick and carried away
TO the police station. Then he saw the
police and the detectives come down the
streets and go into every house; Levon
knew what they were hunting n he was
afraid.
one OF the d~stsctives-it was McIvor Of
the Thirty-seventh street station house
knocked on the door Of the room on Sunday
afternoon. Levon, who was in the room
with Aram, almost shrieked. But ,Aram
went TO the door and answered all the
questions the detective asked. .
So the days passed. Levon would not
play with the children in the streets because
they talked about the murder and he knew.
He was afraid that he would boast TO them
OF what he had seen in the rooms OF his
brothers OF that Sunday night, He was in
terror for fear that his tongue would slip
into the details OF how he got down on his
knees with the rag and warm water and
scrubbed and scrubbed.
But the boy Levon's words will not weigh
much against his brother Aram. He is
very young and the law does not take much
account Of the words OF an infant, even an
infant that is old in the estimation OF the
streets. Besides, Aram Tashjian has con-
fessed.
Levon will not have to go back to the
room where the stains are. He has been
taken in charge by the Gerry society and
it is probable that he will never live with
his brother again.
After Tashjian. had been arraigned on the
charge Of murder before Magistrate Breen
in the Tombs police court he was remanded
to Police Headquarters for twenty-iour
hours. Then it was that Detectives McCsf-
| ferty and Doran, with a squad OF police;
men, were detailed 10 take the confessed
murderer down 70 the West Thirty-sixth
street pier to point put where ne nad thrown
the head of his brother.
The word that the Armenian was to be
brought back to aid in the hunt for the
head spread through Hells Kitchen like
the news of a fight n a crowd OF almost
a thousand men,, women and children lined
every available inch Of the waterfront from
Thirtieth to T~hirty-eighth street. Blu the
detectives took their man to the foot OF
Twenty-second street to avoid the crowds
and there put him aboard a police launch.
When the launch appeared Oh the loot
OF the Thirty-sixth street pier there was a
cry from the huddled fringes Of the crowd
lining the wharves: -,
There he isl That's the ginny that did
the stabbing. Get on to him smoking a
cigarette as IL nothing was the matter.
Tashjian sat on the bow OF the boat ana
smoked innumerable cigarettes as the
tug moved back and forth across the marrow
space Of water between the wharves, with
tho graphing IRONS dragging every foot
Of the river bed. He never turned his head
toward the ~neighbors on the wharf,
who hurled taunts and threats at him,
Two policemen stood by him to prevent
him from jumping into the river.
All afternoon the police tug and several
rowboats worked the waters from Thirty
sixth street down az far az Thirty-second
without result. Once the tug stopped at
| the Thirty-siXth street wharf and IashJian
was made to get out and point from the end
. of the wharf just where he thought he had
thrown the satchel containing. the head.
| At 5 o'clock the police gave up their search.
A request was sent to the dock department
for. the services Of a diver and an outht.
Further search for the head will be made
to-day.
Tashjian told the police yesterday that
he was 20 years old and that the brother
whom he slew was %. Both men worked
in a piano hardw are manutactory at l29th
street and Park avenue. They were both
metal polishers, and said by Emil Has,
their employer, to have been dllgent and
sober workers.
In the warren at 42e Eleventh avenue,
known as the House of All Nations to tene-
ment house agents, but more popularity
termed the House Of Trouble by the people
of that district, the two Armenians were
not we'll known to the other tenants in
the house. The rule of Hell's Kitchen tene-
ments Is to leave your ~neighbors alone
unless the proTer Of a friendly can Of beef
leads to better acquaintance.
/ This convention of tenement society
also commands that one should not -butt
in" when a fight is going on across the
hall. II was the strict adherence to this
mandate of etiquette that prevented the
detection Of the criminal sooner. There
were whispers Of trouble in the Tashjlar
rooms the day after the murder was CON-
uitted, but nobody wanted to be locked w
as a witness in the House of Detention. sc
not a word was said, wen when Detective
McIvor entered the house on Sunday to
investigate.
Now tina murder is out, several womer
who live in the House of Trouble hav'
come forw ard with statements as to JUS
how much Of the tragedy they saw anc
heard. Two Of them. Mrs. Margaret Math'
ews and Mrs. Marie Harrington, were
examined by Assistant District Attorney
Cardozo yesterday afternoon. Their ties
timony has not any great bearing on TIT
case, though a word from them earlier
In the week would have greatly relieved
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