The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-29
CORPSE FOUND.
A Horrible Crime Discovered In
New York City.
HIDDEN In A TRUNK


Woman Had Police to Open Trunk
Left by Two Lodgers, Who Had
Left Without Paying Their Rent.
and the Badly Dccomposed Body
4. Of Greek Minister is Found
Within.
! Rev. Father Kaspar, of the Armen-
ian Apostolic Church, of Hoboken,
n. j., was murdered in the city of
New Yory some time last week. The
body was found Sunday in a trunk,
which mad been left as security for
their room rent by two Greeks, who
three weeks ago engaged furnished
room OF Mrs. Henry Sherer, who oc-
cupled the third floor of tenement
at S33 West Thirty-seventh street.
Ihe body was in kneeling DOS
ture with the head bound against the
knees by a heavy strap that passed
over the back Of the neck and was
ouckled under the shins. The mur-
dered man must have been about so
years Of age. He weighed probably
100 pounds, ald was about feet 4
inches In height. A flowing beard
twelve inches long was streaked with
gray, but the long and bushy hair
was black.
An undershirt of balbriggan and
cuff on the right wrist were all the
body wore, but on top of it had been
thrown three coats Of clerical cut, a
white laundered shirt, two pairs of
black lace shoes, a soft felt hat, two
Roman collars and a detached cuff.
The police think it is possible that
the body was shipped by express
from Chicago and the authorities Of
that city have been asked to follow
one cleW, based on meal ticket, al
so found in the trunk. This ticket
| was issued by restaurant at 1922
Halstead street, West Pullman, Chic
ago, and written in ink across it was
the firm name IS. Ermoylan Broth
ers." Through the word brothers
several red ink Ines were drawn. Be-
NCOSC Va InS SOAQ1I1OA oL IAC IVY,
the manner Of death was not imme-
diately apparent. Following an au-
topsy at the mogue two men were ar
reste on suspician.
Mrs. Sherer told the coroner that
when the two men engaged the room
in her home called themselves John
and Paul Sarkis, each about IS years
of age. John was dark and smooth
shayen and the woman understood
that he conducted a restaurant in the
tenderloin. The other reSembled his
brother, but wore mustache. The
men -ad been visited, she said, by a
man wearing clerical gar5, who
looked not unlike the murdered man
She thought that this man called at
s o'clock last Wednesday morning.
No one in the tenement that day
heard any unusual noises.
Last Wednesday afternoon an ex-
press wagon brought to the house the
trunk which later, was found to con-
tain the body. One Of the dodgers,
with the aid Of a young man, who
drove the express, carried the trunk
with considerable difficulty to the
room. That night Mrs. Sherer asked
her roomers for the rent due. They
pointed to the trunk and said it
would be found to contain ample Sc
curity for what they owed. Later
the men said that the trunk deliver
ed to them was not theirs, but that
| mistake had been made.
The next morning the roomers left
before Mrs. Sherer was up. The next
| day unpleasant odors were detected
coming from the room and to-day,
Mrs. Sherer appealed to the police
| and the trunk was forced open. The
body was removed to the morgue
and the police began minute exam
| nation of it's hiding place. 1t was
cheaply built affair and showed
marks of hard usage. Inside the
cover was printed a name that look
ed like Giuseppe Sarkis. On the out
side of the chest was the name >"Er-
movian."
The autopsy developed that the
neck and an arm had been broken.
| Coroner's Physician Lehane declared
! however, that death was due to suf-
location. The Internal organs were
congested and DR.. Lehane gave it as
his opinion that the man was thrust
| into the trunk while alive, and the
cover of the air tight trunk held
down until death ensued. The condl-
ton of the organs were found to be
similar to those in cases OF asphyzla-
ton.
A Dispatch from Chicago says at
the West Pullman address on Hal
stead street, the Armenians kept a
restaurant until five. months ago un-
der the name Of S. Ermeylan Broth
ers. The Chicago police Sunday
night learned that on February Z,
trunk said to answer the description
of that found in the New York board
ing house was shipped from West
Pullman by express to Sarkis Ermey-
| Ian, 426 West Fortieth street, New
York city. 1t was shipped by a man
who gave lis name as K. keneslam.
Lewis B. Mcdonald, agent Tor the
Adams Express Company at west
Pullman saidthat Kenesiam told MN
that the trunk contained silks valued
at 5000. Search was begun at once
for Kenesian.