The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-05-27
VICTIM AN ARMENIAN
Evidently Thrust Into Re-
ceptacle While Alive
and Sufocated
TWO GREEK SUSPECTS
Leave Grewson Evidence
of Crime Behind as Sc
curity for Rent

NEW YORK. May 26.-Rev.
Father Kaspar of the Armenian Apos-
tohc church of Hoboken. n. J.. was
murdered IN this city some time last
week. The body was found today in
a trunk which had been left for security
for their room rent by two Greeks who
had rented a room from Mrs. Annie
Sherer. who occupies the third floor of
a tenement house at 333 West Thirty
seventh street
Mrs. Sherer rented one of her SIX
rooms IN the tenement to two unknown
men three weeks ago. When the rent
was not forthcoming on Wednesday
her dodgers. two Creeks, told her that
she was amply secured by their well
filed trunk The men disappeared the
following morning and the trunk was
broken open today To the horror Of
Mrs. Sherer It was found to contain
the body OF man. The body was in
q kneeling posture. with the head
bound against the knees by a heavy
strap that had been passed over the
back OF the neck and buckled under
the shins
The murdered man must have been
about 40 years Of age. He weighed
probably 16O pounds and was feet 4
inches in height A flowing beard y
inches long was streaked with gray
but the long and bushy hair was black
An undershirt Of balbriggan and a cur
on the right wrist were all the cloth
ing on the body. but on top of it had
been thrown three coats of clerical cut
? white laundered shirt. two pairs Of
white shoes, two collars and a de-
tached cuff
MEAL TICKET GIVES CLEW
The police believe it possible that the
body was shipped here by express
from Chicago. and the authorities Of
that city have been asked to follow one
clew, based on a meal ticket found in
the trunk. This ticket was issued by
a restaurant at 1922 Halstead street,
West Pullman. Chicago, and written in
ink across 1t was the firm name, as.
Ermoylan Brothers"
Following an autopsy at the morgue
two men were arrested on suspicion.
Mrs. Sherer told the coroner's jury that
when the two men mad engaged the
room IN her home they described them
. selves as John and Paul Sarkis, each
about IS years OF age. John was dark
and smooth shaven and said he had
conducted a restaurant in the tender
Ioin- The other wore a mustache.
They had been visited, she said, by
a man wearing a clerical garb, who
looked not unlike the murdered man.
She believed that this man had called
at O'Clock last Wednesday evening.
No one heard any unusual noises that
day. Late Wednesday afternoon the
express wagon brought to the house
the trunk which later was found to
contain the body. One OF the dodgers.
with the aid of young man who drove
the express wagon, carried the trunk
with considerable difficulty to the room
POLICE BREAK INTO TRUNK
That night Mrs. Sherer asked her
roomers for the rent. They pointed 20
the trunk and said it would be found
10 contain ample security for what
they owed. Later they said that the
trunk was not theirs and that a mis-
take had been made. It remained in
the house. however. and was there the
next morning. although the roomers
had 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 Mrs Sherer appealed to the po-
lice and the trunk was forced open
The body was removed to the morgue
and the police began a minute exam
ination OF it's hiding place. The trunk
was of a cheap build and showed marks
Of hard usage. Inside the cover was
printed a name that looked like Il f.
Parks" On the chest was the name
"Ermovian."
The autopsy developed that the neck