Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-29
MINNEAPOLIS TRAGEDY
A Party of Foreigners Arrested
at Duluth.
SUSPECTED OF THE CRIME
One Admitted Renting House Where
Crime Was Enacted.
THEY SPEAK ENGLISH POORLY
Clue at st. Paul - Canvass of Shops
to Find Purchasers of
Deadly Knives.
SUSPECTED OF THE CRIME
THEY SPEAK ENGLISH POORLY

DULUTH, Mimi, March 29.-Six foreign
ers, one of whom acknowledged that they
came from the house in Minneapolis where
SIX Bulgarians were slain early Tuesday
morning, were arrested here today. The
spokesman for the party says they left Min
neapolis Monday, and that at that time
there were only six men in the house and
that all were alive and well. He says he
knew but two of the men there. The man
under examination speaks English SO poorly
that the police made slow progress in cues
ttoning him. None of the others speaks Eng
lish. A woman, wife Of one OF the men, is
in custody with them. All are well supplied
with money.
SckuIon says when the party entered the
Minneapolis house 1t numbered sixteen men
Ten of these came to Duluth, leaving six In
Minneapolis. Of the six. four were brothers
OF the name Dimitri. The Dimitr,. went to
the train Monday and were then alive and
wen' ana Sckutoff says there was the best
OF feeling in the house
Surprised to Learn of Tragedy.
The ten that came to Duluth were on their
wa! 10 Hlbbing to work in the mines They
come from the province of Presba, near
bulgaria, but which, they say, is under
iurklsh rule. Sckuloff expressed surprise at
nearing OF the murder, but when asked for
a theory shrugged his shoulders. threw nm
ms hands and said he did not know,
Inc effects of religious nature found
III the mouse, he says are prayer books
ana paraphernalia of the Bulgarian church,
" wlich lhe members of the party belong.
Inc leader OF the men arrested here is
kuZman Sckuloff and the woman arrested
with the party is his wife
sckulon finally admitted to the police
that 1t was he who rented the house in
hn
there He persisted, however. In saving
everything was all right when he left there
with his party. Other arrests were made
later this morning, and the police now
nave IN custody eight men, two boys and
one woman. Some are Bulearians and
some Macedonians
Looking for Two Men.
ST PAUL. Mimi. March oe-It is learn
ed today that early Tuesday morning the
police from the Prior avenue station be-
tween ST. Paul and Minneapolis arrested
two foreigners who wore no hats and an
peared very much excited. The men could
not speak English. One who had blood
on his wrist. made signs his nose had been
They were held until police at Minneapolis
and st. Paul central stations were COM
munlcated with, but upon inforina ton that
no one was wanted by either station the
men were released. The police of both
Search of Shops.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, March 29.-The
poilce are making canvass of all shops
where are sold long knives of the bowie
pattern. The four knives which were found
about the premises where six men were
hacked to death Tuesday morning were all
Of this pattern and all were brand new.
indicating they had been probably pur-
chased at the same place and time The
police hope by visiting various shops to
get some information as to the purchasers
of the knives.
Through the arrests made at Duluth the
Minneapolis police get the first clue to the
identity and habits of the murdered men
and the probable identity of the slayers
Police Superintendent Doyle of Minneapolis
has received advices from Duluth that the
men held there are willing to do all in their
power to assist the police here. The men
will be brought here from Duluth at once