New-York tribune., 1907-05-27
PRIESTS BODY TN BOX.
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| scene. and reported to Inspector Burns for work
on the case.
Dr. Leblanc said he thought the man had been
dead six or seven days. He was probably forty
FIVE years old; was > feet or = inches tall and
weighed 100 pounds. The man had long black
hair and Inustache, with a long flowing beard of
black streaked with gray An undershirt and a
cuff on one wrist was the only clothing on the
body.
The doctor said he made a cursory exa nina
tion of the internal organs. Their condition
showed death had been due to suffocation or
asphyxiation. The neck was broken and the
right arm wcs broken. the result of rough usage
when the put in the trunk He thought
the priest had been drugged before being put
in the trunk
The dead mans knees were bent up against
the trunk. The body bound with a strap
over the back of the neck and over the shins
Over the body lay the mans clothing of black
material and clerical cut.
DR.. Lehane said he thought Knockout drops"
might have been administered and the internal
organs were sent to Police Headquarters.
TRUNK IDENTIFIED
Detective McHenna. assigned by Captain Nc
Cafferty TO work with Lieutenant Fogarty on
the case. found who said he was Simon
Pashakarian, of No. 506 Tenth avenue who iden-
titled the trunk belonging to one Sarki Err
maj!an, an Armenian, who. he said, roomed with
him for four months, up to last Monday night
when he quit the house. owing several weeks
rent.
Pashakarian told the police Ermajian previous
10 his coming to this city. had worked in a
restaurant in West Pullman. Chicago
In the trunk the police found a communication
meal ticket, on which was written in ink IS
Ermoylan Brothers" and the word brothers"
had been crossed out with several ink lines The
ticket was issued by a restaurant at No 1922
Halsted street. West Pullman Chicago
police alarm has been sent out for three
men.
The police theory is that the priest was mur-
dered in the Tenth avenue house. as it was
learned that nobody in the habit Of
naming in the place during the day. The flat
Is on the third floor front. and has four rooms.
The police believe the two men. Sark Ermajian
being the third man in the case, lured the priest
TO this house to rob him.
The police seeking the cXpressman who
helped move the trunk to the Sherrers fiat
Detective Gilbert arrived at the morgue at
late hour last night with man who was de-
scribed as B. Holopisean, a grocer. with place
Of business at No. 5lS West 4Sth street.
partly erased baggage label was found on
the side of the trunk, with the address No. ST
Washington street. The address was said by
the police 10 be an express agency.
The name "Sarkis' was painted on the inside
Of the trunk and the outside tho name "Er-
movan" was inscribed,
Chicago. May 26-At the West Pullman adj
dress, No. 1000 Halsted street. two Armenians
kept a restaurant until five months ago under
the name of 5 Ermeylan Brothers. The police
learned tonight that about the time the Ermey-
lans closed out their business an Armenian eX-
pressman. whose name they withheld, hauled d
trunk answering the description of that found
in the New York boarding house from the
taurant 10 the railway station. II bore New
York address. according to the police.
The police Tonight learned also that on Feb
ruary ! a trunk, said 10 answer the descriptions
Of that found In the New York boarding house
was shipped from West Pullman by express 10
Sarkis ErmeyIan. No. 426 West 10th street, New