The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-01-15
SOLVES MYSTERY
Of A LEG FOUND
IN A SUIT CASE
Chicago Police By Arresting 1853
Discover Victim Was Turkish
Coffee House Owner.
HEAD BURNED BY SLAYER
Torso Found in Halsted Street Base
ment; Prisoners Tell
Of Killing.
HEAD BURNED BY SLAYER

1E5of SAH- hS o0iiNaSG
murder appeared solved last night,
following confessions obtained by
Captain Stephen X. Healy of the
West Chicago Avenue Station, Ac-
cording to Captain Healy, the man
who was murdered was Awle Abb
dowl, manager and part owner of a
Turkish coffee house and cafe at
4S6 North Halsted street. Race
hatred has been established as the
chief motive. with robbery as an i'm
mediate incentive.
Hassan Sina. an Albanian, and
partner with Abdowl In the coffee
house, il held by the police as the
man with immediate knowledge of
the murder. One hundred and
siXty-eight other Turks, Albanians
and nondescript Asiatics are held as
having possible knowledge OF the
murder or its contributing causes.
Two w63nen taken In the general
dragnet put out are Thought to have
no knowledge directly baass sig on
the crime and probably viii be re-,
leased this morning.
Sina Gives Police information.
Sina. In a four-hour grilling in
Captain Healy's office yesterday af-
ternoon, confessed enough, the police
believe, to secure grand jury in.
aictment. Sina admitted that
murder had been committed and
that Abdowl was the man killed.
Sina said he quareled with Abdowl
the day before the murder; that he
had pistol fight with him in St.
Louis, Mo-, following quarrel over
a saloon business they conducted to-
gether there several years ago; and
that finally he tSina) was in the
coffee house when Abdowl was slain.
SIna maintained that he had no ac-
tual hand in the killing, though he
was present when the head was
severed from the torso of the MUIR
dered man and burned in a stove in
tho restaurant.
A severed leg, found in a suitcase
In the rear of barn at 400 North
Halsted street Saturday afternoon,
was the first intimation the police
had that there had been n murder.
A dragnet was thrown out and 1874
members of the Turkish colony
brought into the station. From
these Captain Healy learned that
Abdowl had been missing" since
January 6. Sina, because of his
known troubles with the missing
man, came at once under suspicion.
Ismael Mahmud, second partner OF
Abdewfs, also came in for a share
OF the doubt. The Identification of
Sina and Mahmud by l.. I. Hirsch,
proprietor of store at 512 Mil
waukee avenue, as the mens who had
bought the suitcase in which the
severed leg was found, tended to con-
firm the police suspicious.
Police Find the Torso.
Yesterday detectives, searching in
the ashes under the basement stems
at the restaurant, found half of the
dismembered torso wrapped in
paper and buried in a gunny sack.
Search of the restaurant showed
stains of blood back of the cigar
counter and a bloodstained blanket.
A meat saw, meat cleayers and sew
eral long knives, the presence of
which Sina could not explain, were
found
Mahmud was the first of the part
ners TO be questioned. He said that
Sunday night, January S, Sina told
him at 1890 that he could go to
his home, 20S North Halsted street.
When he left. Mahmud said, Abdowl
was preparing to go to sleep on four
chairs back of the cigar counter,
with blanket wrapped about him,
Mahmud said Ahdowl showed a roll
OF money, and was afraid to sleep
on the third floor OF the bnfAff5s
where twelve Turks and Albanians
had quarters.
Finds Abdowl Missing.
Mahmud said he returned to the
restaurant Monday morning about 5
O'Clock. Abdowl was gone sand he