Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-28
ARREST IS MADE
In Connection With Murder
ofFr.Kasparin New York.
Prisoner Is Later Released BY
the Chicago Police.
No Effort Being Spared to Catch
Men Suspected of Crime.

late tonight in what has become known
as the Trunk murder of New York,
include:
John Ermoyan, arrested in Chicago
on suspicion of knowing something OF
the murder and later released when he
satisfied the police that he knew roth
ing Of the crime; the constant search
by the police. Of New York for Sarskis
Er.Eoyan and has brother Simon, who
have been connected With the case
through cards found in the trunk where
the body WAS discovered, and of third
man, believed to have been connected
with the case, one assertion that
Farther Kaepar Eartianan had recently
inherited a sung fortune from brother
W hp died in Chicago, and that he pos
sc&~cd a jewel of great Vaue in the
form NJ q crescent or Il cross, which
had been handed from generation to
generation of priests, this money ana
the jewel giving the police motive for
tie riwc. and the fact that Mrs. Henry
Shcrrcr, i'll who's" apartments at 33}
West 31th street the trunk with its
BODY N;S found, was taken to police
headquarters t. identify Il man who
hud been arrested as the Express
man. Who took the trunk t. her home.
and later announced that he VAS not
the rrrSon that Carried tho trunk in.
The bod- of tho priest, Rev. Father
K1&rar Narti.nan which WIS found
yesterday doubled With the head strap
rrl To III" knees, lies in the morguc,
positively identified. according TO tho
r"IiCo. INT WithuVt cline other than
those already provided in the finding Of
thr body.
The news from Chicago that an ar
r-5t had been made there stirred police
circlc+ Ill this city, bat the chief Of the
NrW York detective bureau said he had
nothing in the way nf definite infOrma-
ton from the western city. Mo"radian,
believed to have bccf. taken into Gus
:IGy. Int who LITER, it was found was
.i.,rn t.rmo, ian. was formerly a dish
M. rh'r in "a r.Slurart at AZ West
Fcrt-rh street. Of which Sariskis Err
muN"n u.t~ nrnGi"t,r
TIE r..r. :: il, F'rrrklru tonight OF an
'f;G .t;:n MA, answered the dcscrip-
rir'l If "uc nf tho nign under suspicion,
let 10 th2 bringing o: airs. Shcrrer to
police headquarters, bat She stated
Insit.v,ly that this ln"m had nothing
Ia 10 with I'll" cage - far as She knew
ana ~ WAS r. leased.
In to, m"au:i.n, ~" chemical e--
animation Of the stomach ANA intcs-
lines aut other internal organs of the
dead priest is progressing ana until
tn result Of this known the police will
not say positively whether or not
Father Vartianan was killed by drugs
before hc was placed in the trunk
That robbery was the motive for the
crime the police generally believe. The
suggestion that the priest was killed
as Il result Of disclosures of a plot to
.,iz" tn" throne Of Scrvia were not
credited bs, the bishop in charge of the
local field.
AS To- tho fortune left Nartianan in Chi
cago there was little information. A Miss
Ilolcpigian said She had heard Of q leg
acy left by brother in Chicago from
Sarkis Ermoyan
" here tile murder was committed. how
many men We're implicated. whether OF
not 4 secret society was in any way con
ncct"d With the crime remain questions
\ house on Tenth avenue and the room
where the body was found have been un-
der investigation ana the various circum-
stances which lead the detectives that
they may been scene Of the crime. The
connection Of secret society with the
killing has remained more or less of .
vague suggestion, brought to light by tile
hope If a solution of the mystery.
How much money tie priest had with
him when. nearly nude. he was strapped
IL, i,y i, tlc pDlirp
still working on.
Capt Stephen OBricn Of the West 37th
street precinct said at midnight that the
movements Or tie priest HAD been traced
up to noon on last Wednesday. when he
was seen to enter the house at 333 West
S1th street. 10 one saw Nartanan after
this. And the captain expressed the be-
lief that the murder was committed in
the room where the trunk was found. and
said that the contents Of this trunk, re-
moved before the time. were found in bu-
reau drawers and scattered about the
room.
Armenian friends Of the priest asked
permission today to bury the body, but
this the coroner refused.
Tho police On the strength Of later
today revised their alarm
for the thrc> ricn wanted in conn"r-
ton WITH IT, wurGcr. The new tdi-
ton Of th, alarm tol,Cra phcd to the
polira 81 al cities OF the United St3t"S
ana thu principal cities Of Europe
reads:
ARREST for tie murder Of Kaspar
varlorian. priest. Of tho Armcnian
church. Sorllis F,r'noyian. John MORA
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