The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-27
BODY OF SLAIN
PRIEST FOUND
IN SMALL BOX
Grucsome Find Made by Lodging
House Keeper, When Trunk
Is Broken Open.
TWO CREEKS COMMITTED DEEr
Lid Fastened Down While Victim
Was Still AliVe-Death Was
Caused by AsphyXiation.

NEW YORK, May 26.-Rev. Faith
er Kaspar of the Armenian Apostolic
church of Hoboken, N. j., was mur-
dered in this city some time last
week. The body was found today in
a trunk which had been left for Sc
curity for their room rent by two
Greeks, who rented a room from
Mrs. Henry Sherer. who occupies the
third floor of a tenement house at
1913 West Thirty street.
Three weeks ago Mrs. Annie Sher-
er rented on of her six rooms In Il
tenement to two unknown men.
When last Wednesday the rent was
not forthcoming, her dodgers, two
Greeks, told her that she was amply
secured by their well-filled trunk.
The following morning the men dis
appeared, and today the trunk was
broken open. To the horror of Mrs.
Sherer it was found to contain the
badly decomposed body of man.
The body was in a kneeling pos
ture with the head bound against the
knees by a heavy strap that passed
over the back of the neck and was
buckled under the shins.
Following an autopsy at the
morgue two men were arrested on
suspicion Mrs. Sherer told the coro-
ner's jury that when the two mel:
engaged the room in her home they
described themselves as John and
Paul Sarkis, each about 35 years OF
age. John was dark and smooth
shaven and said he had conducted {
restaurant in the tenderloin. The
other wore a moustache. The mer
had been visited, she said, byta ma,
wearing a clerical garb, who looked
uot unlike The murdered man. She
thought that this man called at
o'clock last Wednesday evening. NJ
one heard any unusual noises Jha'
day. Late Wednesday afternoon al
express wagon brought to the nollt
The trunk which later was found T.
contain the body. One of the lod ssrs
with the aid of a Young man VII,
drove the express wagon, carried the
trunk with considerable difficulty, I;
the room. That night Mrs Sherei
asked her roomers for the rent due
They pointeo to the trunk and said i
would be found to contain ample 50
curity for what they oweG. Lath
the men said that the trun1 was ii,
theirs, and that mistake had naaI
made. 1t remained in, the house
however, and was there the nnXi
morning, although the rOomers kat
left before Mrs. Sherer was up. She
did not see them again. The next
day unpleasant odors were detected
coming from the room and today M"s
Sherer appealed to the police and No
trunk was forced oLen. The bod,
was removed to the morgue and the
police began a minute examination Of
its hiding place.
The autopsy developed that The
neck had been broken as hal one
arm. Coroner's Physician Lehtpe re-
clared, however, that death was duo
to suffocation. The internal organ
were congested, and DR.. Leblanc gave
it as his opinion that the man war
thrust into The trunk while alive amc
the cover of the trunk had been held
down until death ensued. The conGI
tions of the organs was found 10 lc
similar as in the cases of aspny iia-
ton.
CHICAGO, May 26-At the West
L L Z q ~ u i'FFjNdi'l
street, two Armenians conducted Il
restaurant until five months ago ~
der the name of S. Ermoylan Broth
els. The police learned tonight that
about the time the Ermoylans closed
out their business, an expres5man,
also an Armenian, whose name th-v
hauled a trunk answe ring
tie description of that found In the
New York boarding house, from INC
r. staurant to the railroad stati II. I;
bore the New York address, ne; IrG-
ing to the police. Inquiry among rne
priests, of whom there are hnr few
in Chicago, failed to disclose any I'M
missing. The ollce
learned to night that on February
9Th of this year trunk which is said
to answer the description OF that
fc und in the New York boarding
house, was shipped from West Pull
nan by express to Sarkis iC rnoyInn,
426 West Fortieth street. it was
shipped by man who gave his name
a. X. Kenosiam. Louis B. NJ ;l,onald,
agent for the Adams Expire IS COM
pany at West Pullman, said that Kt
nosiam told him that the trunk con-
Lained silks and was valued at $20a |
Search was begun at once for Keno
siam.