New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-19
SALESMAN KILLED, HIS
BODY PUT IN TRUNK
JeweIry Dealer Slain on Fri
day, with Robbery as the
Obvious Motive.
SONS TRACE HIS MOVEMENTS
Crime Was Committed Within
Period of an Hour in After
noon, but Discovery of Body
Was Long Delayed.

Moses Sacks, a jewelry salesman, fifty
five years old, living at No "a East goth
street. was killed on Friday afternoon
and his body packed in a trunk which
was placed in the hallway of the six
story apartment house No. 51 Goerck
street Although his movements have
been traced to within an hour of the
time when the trunk containing his
body was carried into the hallway. the
case promises to be as mysterious as
the trunk case which confronted the po-
lice a year ago, to a day. when, on June
IS. 1859. the body of Elsie Sigel was
found in Chinese restaurant on Eighth
avenue.
Four men are held, but there is no
charge against them in connection with
the murder. The neighborbood in which
the trunk was found with the body of
the murdered salesman inside is one OF
unsavory reputation.
Ten years ago Meyer Weisburg, jew
elrv salesman. was done to death in the
same manner as Sacks. and his body,
too. was found in a trunk, near the East
River. The barrel murder was IN that
neighborhood, and is supposed to have
taken place across the street from the
home of one of the men held as ma
terial witness, while a little more than
A year ago a mans body, wrapped IN
oilcloth. was found near the place Where
the trunk was found yesterday.
These things made the Sacks boys un-
easy about their father and one Of them
iohr afraid
my father has been killed like Meyer
Weisburg ten years ago and that ms
bodv will be found in trunk" Ihe de-
1ectives did not consider the case serl-
ous - that time, but two OF the force
+-aced the movements Of the old sales
man ND 10 the time he left Reggano
butcher shop in East 29th street, near
Second avenue, shortly before O'Clock
on Friday.
Girl Saw the Trunk
on Friday afternoon, between 80 ati"
. O'clock. Margaret Chadwick, four years
old ran TO her grandmother. Mrs Mar
80 Murray ianitress of the apartment,
;, .ba front hall. The child was i'm
,raseed because the men had handed
-be trunk carelessly and damaged the
TIE II u--1N
wall
Mrs Murray had a sore foot, and DID
NOT trouble to go downstairs. Yesterday
morning. however, she found the 'ruiih
still in the hall. and after inquiry mao
shown il did not belong 10 any one III
tho house she went to Thomas Collins
driver Of the Delaney street patrol at
the stable. No. - Goerck street, ana
asked him TO remove it. as some one
might steal ii.
ON instructions from Lieutenant Coon
ev. Collins took the trunk TO the station.
where, when the rope was cut. the no
few up and the body of a man was
found inside
I,etterheads bearing the name "isador
Sacks, monographs and jewelry, No lso
East Houston street" were found in the
trunk. as If they had been thrown In
over the body. At that address Julius
Weinberg explained that he had bought
ont the business of Moses Sacks. which
WAS run under the name Of his son, Isa-
dor. Weinberg went to the station and
Identified the body as that of Moses
Sacks.
In the mean time, as Captain Handy,
Of the Delaney street station, was busy
with the Roosevelt parade, Inspector
Russell and Captain Carey. OF the Homi-
eide Bureau, went over 10 the Delaney
street station and Immediately set to
work. Detectives Reidy, Kear. O'Neill.
Nagee. Forbes and Van Wagner started
o,,t on a clew found in the trunk, mem
orandum Of a sale the previous day.
They found at No 17S Chrystie street
Continued on fourteenth page.