The Washington herald., 1910-06-20

jewelry peddler, fifty-five years old, liv-
ing at "a East Ninety-ninth 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, 81 Goerck street Although his
movements have been traced to within
an hour of the time when the trunk con-
tanning his body was carried into the hall
way, the case promises to be as mys-
terious as the trunk case which con-
fronted the police a year ago, to a day,
when, on June l9, 1903, the body of Elsie
Sigel was found IN a Chinese restaurant
on Eighth avenue
Four men are held. but there is no
charge against them In connection with
the murder. The neighborhood IN which
the trunk was found with the body OF
the murdered salesman inside is one Of
unsavory reputation.
Weisburg Murder Similar.
Ten years ago Meyer Weisburg. a jew
elry salesman. was put 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
home of one of the men held as a ma
terial witness, while a little more than a
year ago, mans body, wrapped In oil
cloth, was found near the place where
the trunk was found yesterday.
These things made the Sacks boys I'M
easy about their father, and one OF them
said even on Friday night: II am afraid
my father has been killed Ike Meyer
Weisberg was ten years ago and that his
body viii be found in a trunk" The de-
tectives did not consider the case seri-
ously at that time. but two OF the force
traced the movements of the old sales
man up to the time he left RegganO's
butcher shop in East Twenty-ninth street.
near Second avenue, shortly before
o'clock on Friday.
On Friday afternoon. between 2:30 and
3 O'Clock, Margaret Chadwick, four years
old. ran TO her grandmother, Mrs. Mar
gaTet Murray, janitress Of the apartment,
IN the front hall The child was i'm
pressed because the men had handled
the trunk carelessly and damaged the
wall
Mrs. Murray had a sore foot. and did
not trouble to go downstairs. Yesterday
morning, however, she found the trunk
still in the hall. and after inquiry had
shown IL did not belong 10 any one IN
the house, she went 10 Thomas Collins,
driver of the Delaney street patrol, at
the stable, 81 Goerck street, and asked
him TO remove 1t, as some one might
steal K.
On instructions from Lieut.. Cooney,
Collins took the trunk 10 the station,
where. when --the rope was cut, the Id
few open and the body of a man was
found inside.
Police Get up "A Diary.
Inspector Russell and his men have
made a diary Of the old mans move
ments on the day Of his death, which
reads:
Friday. June II. s a. m.-Moses Sacks
set out from his home. a East Ninety
ninth street. with 5000 worth Of jewelry
in two velvet bags. which he kept inside
his coat pockets. He went TO the lower
East Side and visited several Italians
who had purchased stun of him on the
instaliment plan
Noon-The old man came into Beth
mann's jewelry store at 10 Rivington
street There he met his two younger
sons. Paul and IsIdor He told them no
thought he would go to the service at
o'clock in the Synagogue Beth Hamed-
rash Hagedol, Ga Norfolk street. and then
go home 10 dinner
Half an hour later the old peddler was
in the grocery store of Petro lombard
at rs Christie street. His cousin Ben
jamin Leyenthal had taken him there
lombard wanted a pair OF earrings
which Leventhal didn't have in stock.
As Leventhal thought Sacks might have
them, he met the peddler and conducted
him to the Italians grocery place. Sacks
chf
pair of earrings for $50, paying 500
down. Sachs made memorandum Of the
sale. which was found In his clothing
after death.
100 o'cloek-Lombardi says that Sacks
came back 10 his store to explain about
paying the remaining $50 in installments.
Appearance OF the Trunk.
o'c1Ock-A covered wagon drawn by
bay horse turned from Delaney street
into Goerck. It stopped at 81 Goerck
and two men hastily pulled a trunk into
the hallway. They drove away at once
This on the word of two women living
next door TO the tenement where the
trunk was left. The trunk was found
next morning TO contain Sacks body.
Looking over this improvised dairy In
spectOr Russell and the men under him
death 10 the last time he was seen alive. !
The interval was too short. Therefore |
lombard must be lying, they concluded. /
The murderers were in touch with some !
one in the tenement or watching Il |
close by. They had gotten a signal on |
Delaney street before turning into |
Goerck. once in Goerck they went
straight, without hesitation, 10 81.
The fact that the trunk was new, it |
was decided. was no proof that 1t had |
been hastily bought TO stow the body in. !
An hour and a half, the interval between |
the last sight of Sachs and the appear |
ance of the trunk containing his body. |
Is not enough time in which impulsively |
10 strange a man, thoroughly rob him, |
go out and buy a trunk. fetch it, stow |
the unconscious man, put the trunk on a |
wagon, and arrive at a point q mile or /
more away. Therefore, the new trunk 1
must have been a piece of furniture al |
ready On the premises Of the murder and /
seized on in haste.
Carolh and Piedzurro, the two Italians
arrested along with Lombard were ar /
rested because Of their friendship with /
the grocer and their seeming intimacy
with him. They were arraigned to-day /
in Essex Market Court and locked up /
again without bail
The energies Of the bureau to-day were
best mostly to tracing the horse and |
covered wagon in which the trunk was
taken to the tenement. Along this line
the detectives had no luck.
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