The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-07-19

10 3ss 81 TIE Pores Hi mine Il ina
PHI Bug Mining COMPANY on his peys
SON With other articles, Including a
grocery store book with the name
Andy Leskos inscribed ON ii, gives
great weight to the theory that the
man was victim Of the Black
Hand ps
Looks Like A5Iaek Hand,D
Every detail beapeaks Of the work
Of the .,Black Hand, Of which there
| is a flourishing society at Plttsburg.
The eBlack Hand always leaves
money and other belongings upon the
person Of It's victim, often adding to
them weapons and letters SO as to
make K appear like a case Of suicide
Coroner Rogers says that II looks as
II the @Black Hand" might have fol-
lowed this unknown man from wher-
ever he came, choked him to death,
and then placed his body in the post.
ton in which it was found. His sup.
posed murderers might have placed
the handybilly near the body and p'ac.
ed the seskos pay envelope IL mis-
pocket to add weight to the suicide
theory.
Victim May Be Lesbos.
One theory advanced by Coroner
Rogers is that the dead man may be
Andy Lesbos mot A. seskos). The fact
that he had the same number on the
mine company's pay envelope as John
seskos is puzzllng, on account of the
similarity of the names. However
foreign miners are daily Lowing the
employment of the mine company, and
check No. 875 may once have been
the working number Of the dead nan.
Coroner Makes Statement.
To reported who was with the cor.
oner all morning, corone. Rogers
said:
"The case is getting more mysterI-
Gus as more theories are advanced.
The murder theory looks as good as
the suicide theory. In fact, the sui
eide theory looks imbrobab!e. In every
detail this case corresponds with
"Black Hand" murder cases.
at is well known that there is
flourishing branch of the BLACK
Hand" society at Pittsburg, and Il
would appear that this man might
have been bounded down; that he
bought handybilly to protect him
self, III 1t was he that bought it,.
Further Investigation.
At noon the coroner left word at
the Palace morgue to keep the body
as it is, Undertaken Furbee says that
the body, as it now is can be kept
until Saturday at least.
Meantime Coroner Rogers will con
tinue his investigation, broadening
its scope so as to take in tie BLACK
Hand" murder theory,
Many View Remains.
After the publication in the News
Wednesday Of the mystery surround
ing the case, large crowds of people
tlocked. to the morgue and viewed the
remains. More viewed the corpse yes.
.erlay. Among the number were a
hot Of foreigners, slavs and Creeks. Not
single one of them confessed to
know anything at all about the dead
man.
Look Up Similar Cases.
Coroner Rogers, since the finding
Of the body has been looking up sim.
| liar cases in history. He has com
pared 1t with that of the negro who
committed suicide in the county jail
several months ago by hanging him
self with piece of Irvine. and with
hanging suicide cases and hanging
mysteries from various parts of the
country.
The only ones that closely resemble
the case on hand are sucL as have
never been explained, mostly thought
to be "Black Hand" murders. The
coroner's research up to date shows
the present case to be without parallel
in the crimInology Of obiu county.