Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-31
SLEUTHS SEEK
TRUNK MURDER
SUSPECT HERE
New York Victim Is Identified as
John Kremen, LabOrer
Ne. !02.
COMRADE, KNOWN AS
NUMBER III, IS MISSING
Newark Police Declare They
Were Not Informed of Search
in This City.

NEW YORK, Dec S1.-The police
are now practically certain that the
victim of the trunk murder has been
identified as the laborer who worked
on the roads at Garrison, N. Y,
known as No. 102. The contractors
who employed him do not know the
mans name. but it is believed to be
John Kremen.
The detectives are now bending
their efforts to find No. III, who was
the chum of No. 102, and who left the
work upstate about the same time as
the victim of the murder.
No. III has beer traced to Harrison,
n. j., and thence to Newark, but he
has not been found. and detectives
are now seeking him there on the
theory that he can at least greatly aid
In clearing UP the mystery that en-
khrouds the death of No. 102.
Daniel f. Cullen, a timekeeper for
j. F. Donovan, the road contractor at
Garrison, N. Y. recognized the brass
check as one issued by him to Polish
laborer on September 3. The man was
employed as road worker until De-
cember II, when he gave up his job
after he had drawn $50 in wages.
Detective Lieutenant Steinkamp and
Detective Plaster hurried to Garrison
with Michael Maly, of 214 East Third
street, who on Monday saw the body
of the victim and said he was sure
that he had formerly roomed with
the man in several Polish boarding
houses. Maly denied that he had ever
been employed on the Donovan con-
tract, although a description given OF
the man who had check No. III bore
a remarkable similarity.
"This man Is not the laborer who
was known in the camp as No. III,
Timekeeper Cullen said when he saw
Maly last night 1.-THE man who was
here had very red hair and was
Slightly taller The picture, how
ever, is without a doubt the photo
graph of the laborer / knew as No.
102"
"R. r. zeni, who operates hotel
and camp for the laborers, brought
No. 102 up here September ., and
put him to work the next day." Gull
len said to a reporter. THE man
rarely mingled with the other labor
ers with the exception of the fellow
we know as No. lit. On these road
jobs we don't know men by their
names. and we don't care anything
about them beyond supervising their
NOtk anu ptylllE thchi JILL - 10
however, possible that Zeni may
know him. No. 102 was here at noon
last Sunday. / am sure | saw him
then"
At the Zeni camp Miss Lizzie Cunt
kowitz who is employed there as a
waitress, recalled No. 102 having lived
for several days in the Zeni boarding
house.
This man they call Maly looks very
much like No. III. who was always
going about with No. 102" she said to
a reporter when she saw the laborer
who accompanied the detective from
New York. "Of course, I might be
mistaken"
If New York detectives are search
ing in Newark in an attempt to de-
velop any clues to the trunk mystery,
as some reports state, they are work.
ing secretly, as neither Chief of Po-
lice Long, Captain of Detectives
Tuite nor Prosecutor Hood has cog,
nizance of any activities in the case
in this city. A house at 1893 Bank
street. in which a suspect in the case
is said to have lived, was visited by
a Star reporter. Exhaustive inquiries
in the neighborhood elected no infor-
nation about either the suspect or
the murder.