The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-06
MYSTERY OF THE GENTLEMEN MARTYRS.
(Copyright Benj. B. Hampton)

>TY was the morning of September Y3, between z III half-past eight and nine o'clock, and all the kI various so-called rapid transit conveniences for conveying business people into New York were rongested, usual, with men. women. and newspa- pers. For two or three weeks past the newspapers had been disappointingy dull,-nothing in them to stir the magnatlon in the shape of divorce cases or ton in sight.
 So had said the readers of newspapers on the morning of September I2; but this morning Of September I3 it quite evident that sudden change for the better had taken place. Something. gry. goating eyes that were feeding voraciously on headlines of abnormal size and form of meio. American journal is capable. Among all the poster like announcements that caught the eye on every In enormous letters which covered almost the whole 's TWELVE MURDERS IN '|eI oNE NIGHT! and this promising title page was decorated with a spirited border of cross-bones and revolvers.
 Twelve murders in one nighti The morning jour- ney in subway, elevated and surface car, was, for once quarter long enough for the enjoyment of all the intimate details of this unparalleled series Of mysterious crimes and as Wall and Fulton Streets and Bowling Green were successvey reached, 1t with such sigh as ore puts down some enthralllng romance that the enwrapt passengers aghted at their various destinations Twelve murders in night ] ThillEs of it The conductors had to buy their own papers that morning Not newspaper was left in the cars = The newspapers of the day. and of the weeks fol- lowing. be read for complete history of these twelve murders The printed matter concerning them would fill many volumes and the curious may study all the details with gruesome photographic comment
  concerned only with the main facts of the mur- ders and their subsequently discovered significance Tos begin with. here is list of the murdered as printed in the authentic New York newspapers or the morning of September I3: Charles OHagan, residing 72o West Fifty-seventh William Jenkins residing at o6o West One Hundred and Twenty-hrs Street: gate-man at the Grand Union Depot
 Ikley Travers of Travers Court Chaldowns. Eng land staying at the Royal Crown Hotel William OSheay, residing at Io4o West Forty-seventh rect
 Benjamin Goodrich, residing the Hotel Magnificent; theatrical manager.
 L PasquereIla residing at 2oS Mulberry Street, work Timothy L Bryan hnancier. with offices at Wall and William Streets.
 Eugene Kellogg, residing at the Hotel Bellecourt; Adolph Mehl residing at 327 Bonn Street, Hoboken. New Jersey; head-waiter.
 Herman Rosenblatt residing 2o27 Lenox Avenue; travelling salesman
 Francois Emil, residing at r1oo West Twenty-ifth do not propose bewider the reader with 1.-the of the descriptive evidence the part of police officers and others which would naturally accumu- late from the recital of the circumstances and iitions in which twelve slain in night though later on, l may have to invite careful atten- hon to the significant evidence given in court by Pat rolman 4S83 of the Twenty-thd Precinct, and Patrol man 3oo2 of the Forty-hfth Precinct
 At the moment. however, I would draw attention 10 the occupations and nationates of the murdered Divested of names and addresses. they
 
 A railway official
 An English visitor A ar-conductor A theatrical manager
 A policeman.
 An Italian
 A Inancier.
 A manufactuVer.
 A German head-waiter
 A Harlem Jew.
 4 chauffeur.
 One odd thing about all the crimes that they had been committed almost simultaneously. Another odd Of he VICti had beeu dered in characteristic attitude, the nent of some characteristic action.