Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-25
New York Police Make
a Gain in Their Search
For Evidence Concerning Torso
Found Sunday Night.
Missing Parts Of the Body Are Found II
Various Places Looking Up Clues.

Ne" 1 OK, sept. 24.-Tle first ar
rests growing out of the police inves-
| usatiDn of the murder Of the man
those dismembered body was found
wrapped in hurlaD in an excavation
near East seth street yesterday were
made tonight when two men were TAX
en- into custody as suspicious persons
and later closely questioned at a po-
| lice station.
Tine persons We're John Rondake aged
% years, COpenake, "a years old.
| Late tonight nothing tangible as to
the identity of the murderers had de-
| v-loped.
Luigi Ottone, who was reported miss
ing from his home on West 4Oth street
and who was thought possibly to have
| been the victim. was located today in
q hospital in New Jersey
New York, Sept. 24.-Up to an early
hour today the police had made practi-
| cally no progress in unravelling the
mystery surrounding the finding Of
portions of the body of a murdered
man in a pit in West seth street and
18th avenue. The CHASTITY find was
made nearly "a hours before. The
| trunk Of the man, mutilated, such as
was that of Gudensuppe, the victim
of the notorious murder of nine years
ago. the fOrearms and the lower parts
of the legs We're recovered, but dill
gent search Of the neighborhood failed
to reveal the head or the thighs. The
place where portions Of the body
Were found is near the river and the
police believe the head was thrown
overheard. The only clue which fur
nished any result yesterday, was the
gunny sack upon which was printed
the name H. X" 1t was found that
Mano, who died several weeks ago. had
been an importer of nuts. He was an
Armenian and had his place of bus
mess at No. e. Washington street, in
the heart Of the Syrian and Armenian
colony. He left a widow, who a few
days ago. sold out his entire stock
preparatory to giving up the business.
1t was learned last night that Mano
has brother Jack, who had had troub-
le with his Syrian neighbors because
Of some business deal in the settle
ment Of the estate. 1t was said that
Jack had gone into hiding a few days
ago because of threats made against
his life. Some of the Syrians de-
clared that the description Of the body
missing man. The dead man was Of
foreign extraction either an Italian, an
Armenian or a Syrian.
Coroner's Physician Weston adj
vanced a theory that impressed the
police.
From the condition of the torso"
he said, Il am sure that a murder was
committed after midnight and l also
hal "a nf hn
remains.
Very probably each Of the. three
carried a portion and meant to throw
il into the river
They got frightened, possibly, and
one Of them threw the body into this
hole. Another ran into a freight yard,
and seeing the car door open. flung
his load inside. The third kept on to
the river and hurled the head far out
into the water.
AS to the cutting up Of the body. I
am inclined to think who ever attended
to this part of the crime must have
had some knowledge of anatomy. At
the same time a good butcher might
have done the work.
During the forenoon, one Of the
thighs was found at Eleventh avenue
ana 9Th street. The police We're en-
gagged in searching for the head Of the
missing man and until that was found
had little hope Of identifying the body.
The police We're busy today also in
trying to trace five men who were seen
Saturday night, first pursuing and
later beating man in West seth
street not far from where the torso
was afterward found. A Waterman
told the police today that he witnessed
the pursuit and assault. and then
thought it was only a street brawl COM
mon to that neighborhood and did
nothing to stop it.
The missing thigh was found wrap
ped in a burlap bag in an empty rail-
road car in a freight yard near the
place where the arms and the lower
portion of the legs were found yester-
day In another bundle was a short
portion Of a leg below the knee.
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