New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-29
SEEK PLACE OF MURDER
TRUNK CASE STILL DARK.
Police Unable to Find Men Then
Think Killed Priest.

If tho squadron of detectives which has been
turned loose by Captain McCafferty of the De-
tectve Bureau to prowl around any and all sec
tiOns of the city where Armenians and adherents
of the Greek Church, congregate could trace
accurately the movements of Father kaspar
Vartarian during four hours last "Wednesday af-
ternoon. Captain McCafferty is certain that he
could tell where the Armenian priest was muir
dered. That is the particular phase of the mys-
terry he is trying to solve. Sarkis Ermoy-
ian. John Mooradan and Paul Sarkisan. the
three Armenians who are suspected of completely
in the crime. have not yet been arrested.
The time of the murder was definitely fixed
yesterday between noon and o'clock last
Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Henry Sherrer is
sure that the trunk in which the priests body
found last Sunday was brought TO her apart
ment not later than 5 o'clock Wednesday
Joseph Faishian, Armenian, who keeps
laundry at No 2O3 East 9th street. told Assist
ant District Attorney Maney yesterday that
Father Vartarian had called him for few
moments shortly after noon last Wednesday.
Apparently the priest stopped in at the laundry
Immediately after leaving the restaurant of YAH
ram Serposslon. at No 1877 East 26th street
There are a good many Armenians clustered in
lower Lexington avenue. and in the side streets
from oath street to 2Sth street and Father Var
tartan was we'll known I'm the colony
Faishian is sure it was after IL o'clock when
the priest came into the laundry. He stayed
only few moments and said he going
around to 2Sth street. UP TO late hour last
night nothing had been learned at the Detective
Bureau as to Father Vartarians further move-
ments the day he is supposed to have met
his death.
The statements of Serposson and Faishian
that the priest called on them about noon on
"Wednesday ma MCCanartv inclined
to believe that Father vartarian was murdered
somewhere else than in the room at 33S West
27th street, which was occupied by Moradian and
Sarkisian TO which ErmOyian and the clergyman
frequent visitors. Wherever the murder
was committed. however. it is certain. the police
say, that of the trio must have been con-
cerned In 1t.
The police of Jersey City arrested yesterday
forenoon three Armenians who they thought
might be the missing friends of the murdered
priest but Lieutenant Carey and two of his as
sistants the case satisfied themselves after
brief examination that the prisoners were not
the men they were looking for
Though their work Of yesterday was a disap-
pointment in that it brought them no nearer
70 the discovery of the whereabouts of the
three missing Armenians the police
firmly convinced that the motive for the muir
der just plain robbery. Father Kaspar so
far as could be aseertainey yesterday. could
not have had large of money. but he was
thrifty. and the money he had. whatever is
amount may have been. the police think large
enough TO attract Ermoyian and his two friends.
Bishop Hoosup Sarjn. of West Hoboken who
Intercepted by Mr.. Manley yesterday
afternoon, ridicued the idea of Father Varta-
rians death being due TO his connection with
some Armenian revolutionary party.
No trace of the who brought the trunk
into Mrs. Sherrer's apartment on Wednesday
afternoon and who was accompanied by Errnoy-
ian has been found Captain McCafferty does
not think he is a regular expressman or in the
employ of anybody having an expressman's
license.
No one has as yet been found who has seen
MOoradian Sarkisian since they left Mrs.
Sherrers apartment on Wednesday night. IN
less they took the first opportunity possible to
leave the city IL is considered remarkable that
Ermoyan, who is regarded by the Armenians as
the shrewdest of the three. should have remained
in the neighborhood until Friday afternoon last
when he conversed with Mrs. Charles Holopigian
in the restaurant at No. 457 West 10th street.
1t is possible that MoOradan and Sarkisian
had no hand in the murder itself. but when they
discovered what was In the trunk after going to
their room Wednesday evening suspected
what had happened in their absence and in their
fright made haste to get away before the crime
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