The evening world., 1908-03-23
MAN, BRUTALLY
SLAIN, FOUND IN
VACANT ROOM.
Woman's Curiosity Uncovers
Murder Mystery in East
Side Tenement.
NO CLUE TO IDENTITY.
Lather's Hatchet and Razor
with Which Deed Was Done
Found in Fireplace.
NO CLUE TO IDENTITY.

Passing through the first floor hall
way Of the tail tenement at No. e35
ia st Twenty ninth street. a woman ten
ant saw a mans feet protruding from
a half open door OF room which she
thought was uIsa coupled she supposed
that a new neignbor had gone 10 sleep
on the floor and she minded her own
h,,s.ness and went away That was
this morning
This afternoon curiosity got the best
of this woman. whose name is Mrs.
Rose Braun. What she saw when she
opened the half-shut door. where the
feet stuck out. sent her screaming to
the street and presently furnished the
police with one of the grInmest' strane-
est murder mysteries of recent months
The feet belonged TO a man who mad
been killed In q barbarous fashion he
lay ON the floor fully dressed HIS legs
wero bound together with many lengths
Of n fuzzy cord. His al1hl had been
chopped open in three places and MS
head had been almost severed from the
trunk. In the fireplace lay a latheTs
hatohet and sharp razor-the TOOLS
with which tho thing had been oo''e'
Rented Rooms a Week Ago.
xe.k ago to-day two men. who
looked like Italians. came TO the mouse
A tall. red-faced man was the spokes-
man. His companion, small DARK ana
furtive. said nothing. From Mrs Ma
than bernstein, wife OF the )amtor the
+al,er OF the two rented the two small
rooms at the rear OF the first moor
hack Of Louis Jedd's little picture store
Across the hall on the same hoor is the
Banco Cancel Mrs. Brann lives De-
hind the bank. just across the nan
from the rooms which the strangers
hired.
The small man laid down a deposit
or a. shucktng the DILL from a big roll
which he carried. Mrs. Bernstein prom
ised TO hold the rooms for them. They
were to move in on Wednesday OF this
week. She gave them no receipt and
they did not tell her their names She
gave them key. She did not see them
again
But after Mrs Braun had found the
dead man. Mrs. Bernstein recognized
him as the larger of the pair who had
rented the rooms.
No Ono Heard Struggle.
Late last night Mrs. Braun saw two
men and a woman passing through the
hallway. which gives back from the
street. She thinks now that they Went
1.&s of fuyN
opposite. 1t was In this tiny kitchen
that the murder occurred some ume
early this morning. Nobody heard any
But from some OF the mute pieces OF
evidence the police are piecinS to-
sether a part of the story. The dead
mans bcdy was clothed in the sarb of
A well-to-do mechanic. HIS corduroy
zap was lying under his body. where he |
ell on 1t.
A broken link in his buttonhole shows |
where his watch was snatched away. |
n his pockets was handkerchief
marked with the initials &c. c." some
olored paper confetti and a few scraps
4 GRUMPY Italian candy. In the fire.
lace. with the hatchet and the razor,
vas bunch OF keys. including the key
which Mrs. Bernstein entrusted to her
new tenants last week.
The dead man was a big fellow, with
long reddish moustache. 1t is be-
eved that the first blow of the hatchet
augAt nm between the eyes and cleft
he skull, deep into the brain. as he
lossed the threshold of the door
,fter he fell 1t is presumed that hi
layer or slayers struck him twice wi,
he hatchet, bound his legs. cut Nj.
hroat with the razor. robbed the body
nd fled.