The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-06-07
fN ' TRUNK
Ito BE an Agent of the
turkish sutton.
SLAIN PRIEST

Expressed by Greeks and Others
He Crossed American Society IN
America Which Seeks to Free Ar.
lfnenia From Turks Control.
Dilligent effort on the part of 6
score Of detectives from headquar.
ters did not make much Roadway il
the solution of the problem Of how
the body of the Greek priest, Father
Casper Haran, or Vatiarian, as the
police records have it, came to be
found doubled up in a trunk in a va.
cant room at 1873 West Thirty-seven
tn street, New York, Sunday May
26. Two men, and possibly four,
whom the police believe to be impli.
Gated in the murder have not yet
been found.
The developments have brought
forth two facts which may uncove
the motive of the murder and clear
away to some extent the doubt con
corning how and when the priest met
his death. Most important of these
discoveries is the fact that Father
Casper was a politician as well as a
cleric, and that he had close alliance
with n of the American secret rev.
dictionary societies in this city.
1t was learned that very recently
there had been a split in the ranks
Of the revolutionary workers of the
local Armenian colony, and that
much bad blood had been engender-
ed between the two factions.
REVOLUTIONARY ORDER.
Vahram Sopossion, an Armenian,
who has a restaurant at 1877 East
Tw~enty-sixth street, and a number
of Armenians gathered there ex-
planned to a reporter just what re-
lation the affairs of the Honchekis
or Henchagain society may be found
to bear with the murder of Father
Casper when the hidden facts in the
case are brought to light.
Throughout all Europe and in
America wherever there Is a suf1i~
GENTLY large colony of loyal Armen-
ians branches of the Honchekis have
been established. The order is pure
ly a revolutionary one, and the avow-
GU ODJcCU ID W llcc fAIIIlcIlld anu
neighboring Christian countries from
the rule of the Turks. The New York
branch of the society had been es-
tablished some time ago, said the
Armenian restaurant keeper, and had
worked many years in harmony until
two months ago.
Serpossian said that as a member
Of the new branch Of the society he
could not inter into details Of the
split, but ling was high and there
was still Dl,uer recrimination and &C.
cusation of unfaithful passing be
tween the two branches of the revo
lutionary order.
SPIES HAVE BEEN SLAIN.
In Europe and in a few instance;
in this country spies have been dis
covered in the ranks of the Armen
ian society whose duty it has been t,
nip incipient revolutions in Armeni;
by passing up to the Turkish author
tiles at home information of the Hon
chekis campaigns.
There have been spies in our owl
number" and Terpossian. THE &C
cusation of spy has been made mem
bers of our society"
WAS the priest a spy"
IF he was a spy he died like 9th
ers have died before him who hav,
been SPIES" was the answer the Ar
menian made.
The restaurant keeper and his com
panions were asked if Father Caspe.
had been a member of the Honche
kis. They said that he had, but the,
would not specify which branch O
the recently divided society he be
longed to.
BITTER TOWARD PRIEST.
Gather Casper had a bad rcputa
tion," continued the speaker for the
(. group. "He was known to be mis-
erly and to prefer to beg his bread
and bed than work for it. We have
always known him as a man who lott.
cred around and did as little as DOS.
sible for a living. He had the repu.
tation of being no good"
The second fact brought out in the
Investigations which forced the de
t%ectives to revise their theories of
the time and place where Father
Caspar was murdered is that he was
seer alive at II o'clock noon on We'd
nesday and in the restaurant of the
man %Serpossian, who is strong in his
condemnation Of the dead priests
character.
According to this mans story, the
priest came to his place Of business
alone and carrying with him the
black hand bag which he always took
with him on his wandering through
the city. When he left the restaurant
about moor he said he was going up
town to meet some friends.
Up to the present the detectives
)have not been able to trace Father
: Caspar's movements after he was
seen by Mrs. Schcrcr, the German
woman who rented a room to the two
Armenians who disappeared on We'd
nesday evening.
MYSTERY BECOMES DEEPER.
Mrs. Schcrcr say the priest in the
company Of the two at s O'Clock in
the morning, in the hallway of the
Scherer flat, on the third floor of the
tenement at 1913 West Thirty-sevcn-
tn street. The German woman told
the detectives she was sure that she
saw Sarkis, one Of her dodgers, and
a strange man coming upstairs, to
the flat with a heavy trunk in the
aftcrn" n Of the same day. The de
tective yccm to accept as positive
the ASSUMPTION that the priests
body was il, IN, trunk that Mrc Snb