New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
ARMENIAN TO CONFESS.
Rag Merchants Slayer Tightens
CoiLs around ASSASSIN Gang.

fsadros Her-arootzoouian IS expected confess
to-Gay. District Attorney Jerome wiil return 70
,ow- shis morning examine fifteen ATrnenians
-rbo are said - know :he inside workings of the
Fsuntcnskist Society
y believe that we viii solve ths mysteries Of
stese Armenian murders ard Matchmaking cases
or rSy return 20 the city said Mr. Jerome yes
serday, when seen az his country home in Lake
.lle Conn. i expect 2 confession from the muir
sIsre- Of II 6 Tavshantian, and already some of
the facts regarding which we have been in the
dark have been made plain 7 mad long
talk with little Redros. the murderer. and he mas
practically agreed 10 tei: ne who were his ac-
complies II he indicates secret society officers
who ordered him 20 commit tI5e crime shall re
main at my office as many days as are necessary
70 see that the arrests are made
Mr.. Jerome declined 10 say what HRmDortZoo-
nisn had told him. but Immediately after MS tax
with the assassin the District Attorney, accom-
panied f.y Eddie" Reardon. made trip TO Boston
and New England cities t0 Investigate certain
phases OF the
Another development following the first evidence
of the willingness the part of the prisoner 10
talk is the search instituted yesterday by Deputy
Commissioner Woods for nan who is said I"
have been named by little Bedros the person
with whom he lived for fifteen days preceding the
murder Of tfe rug merchant in Union Square
Ashod Khan Tiryakian. nephew of TavsiianJian'
who received a cable dispatch announcing his un-
cles murder Just as he was released from
prison, has returned 10 New York He spent the
/ afternoon with his at Deal Beach tnilke
many nersons who have been in Turkish prisons.
he saws he YVES well treated He was afforded
every facility his business and was as
cured he would not be moested again by Turkish
officers . ~;
When the Turkish police found. according 10 his
statement that an ancestor Of his had been actlFe
.n opposing the government TiTyakian was locked
up July on what the police called susF1cloh
rFs was kep= in confinement eighteen DAYS ana
sher through efforts Of Timothy IL NJ Noooruil
ana Cong. essG,,an Herbert Parsons and through
:he work ot the Stats Department. he was released,
IL zzas altogether an unpleasant experience
e.s5 -fr =,-al.ia1 yesterday, 1 did not find
bra -iIrasis. officials such monsters as the papers
kri.;sf-= thefn. II be sure. they kept me a tew
DAYS hut j. interesting and suffered no real
harashipS-o,y the iuUonvcne;ioe OF being kept IN
. --ETh,a ies- Kew York months ago / in
tended to stay mos,tt,s ouying rugs IL Inr-
jzey a.: re-s,a ana after visiting my parents IN
Paris wet 70 Smyrna. where fc- a few days
Official ca--e slong and put me into JAZZ he
sres ,sce a bout IL and allowed TO communicate
with ~ ar5.e, IL s TavshsntiaE. ana with me
i American Embassy ~ iorStantlnoft- 1o1 See
he. t,ixen or my first citizenship papers
IN sae ssl H'iJ were a lot Of other persons
some Of tEc--1 TOO poor 10 DUE extra 1000 ana
while 1 1l.e,e helped ttlo-n some so that
! when az :ile enc os tEo weeks l was taken 10
I s-o-sra-..noylle tiey soTTy 10 see ne GO In
/ Co-Startinople they held four days. and then
the chief oe pclica sent for me: he treated me
SLAPPED sne OF The shoulder and :old me could
come and 20 ss wished about the country Iheh
as ( eas leaving his Office tul cf Joy 3t my re
lease was handed q cablegram telling me OF the
-.llT1er of uncle- one OF the pest 3fleiics AT
--lenia ever had
NJ TfrvaiZia.. whose title is Khan. CT Prince is
& Pe.Yicu He has been in The United States four
years
lrurder Of TavsheasaT. which is 10 be presented
10 rfe District Attorney to-day are several addi-
-ional threatening letters found among the mur-
dered mans papers. Mr. Maney. who had thein @
.s1ey were similar 10 those which have already been
produced in the case