Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-25

Body Believed to be Sabri Ali, Mur-
 dered Albanian, Discovered in Mill
 Ditch at Attawaugan-Five of the
 Mans Countrymen Taken Into Gus
 tcdy on Suspicion of Having knowI- :
 edge of His Death-Rumors of Foul | Play Came First From Waterbury.
 Finding of the body of a murdered man, believed to be Sabri Ali, an AL
 banian, in the mill ditch at Attawau- gan Thursday afternoon, gave the peo- pie of that village a shock and incl dentally substantiated a report that attracted the attention of the state po | lice a few weeks ago that a man had 1 been done to death at Goodyear | Following the finding of the body l a group of five Albanians with whom | the dead man made his home at Good year, where he was employed in the | mill up to about seven weeks ago, were taken into custody and are be- | ing held for an inquiry that will be instituted this morning. Officers were seeking for two more Albanians on 1 Thursday night, at North Grosvenor- | dale and at Waterbury.
 Wrapped in Burlap. When the body was found Thurs | day afternoon it was wrapped secure | ly in burlap that had been tied about | it with stout cord and the legs had been drawn close up to the body and 1 held in that position by chains that were wrapped about the ankles and legs and then stretched upward and wound about the body just above the hips. Inside the burlap and resting on the dead mans chest was a big stone. placed there that the body might not rise again to the surface after it had been thrown into the drifted through the locks and into the mill ditch. where the shastly bundle finally brought up against the iron bar gratings that keep foreign matter from passing into the wheel pit The stone, it was afterwards found, weighs 46 pounds.
 Discovered by Charles Weeks.
 Charles Weeks, who keeps the grates of the ditch clear. discovered the body about 1 D. m. It was not there few hours before he said, and evidently had drifted down during the forenoon. One theory advanced was that the body, notwithstanding the heavy stone had been caused the rise to the sur face by the accumulated ga ses within 1t and the effect of the thunderstorm during the early hours of Wedncs- day morning. At what point the body was thrown into the river or ditch re- mains mystery.
 Coroner Present.
 Coroner Arthur G. Piu was at the mill when the body was removed from the ditch and directed that it be taken in charge by Underta ker Louis F. Kennedy, to whose rooms in Daniel son it was removed
 The body was in an advanced age of decomposition, it was found when the wrappinss were removed in Dan ielson. but Alex Mileau. overseer of of the Goodyear Cotton company iden- 1 tff1ed it as that of an employe in his l department who has been missing for nearly two months and who was tETTTs a% +E1o r71a
 Industrious Workman.
 Agent Robert w. Boys of the mill l company and MT. Mi1eau both describe l ploye. who was always on the job and | willing to work overtime when oppor- l tunity offered MT. Boys said that it | Is understood that the man was in | the habit of carrying all of his sav- 1 ings on his person and a report gain | ed currency at Goodyear Thursday | evening that robbery may have been | the motive for the murder. Another quarrel over q game of cards, the fact | kept secret and the body disposed of. |
 No bullet wounds were found on the body in the superficial examina- tion made Thursday. The face was bruised. The method of killing the man is not expected to be determined until Medical Examiner Dr. George M. Burroughs performs the autopsy today.
 Worked There Before
 The dead man during the last pe- riod of his employment at Goodyear had been with the company about four months. He had worked there at diff ferent times previously, however
 He made his home with group of all males, who occupied a two-tenement house in what is known as the south village, below the mill l and on the most western row of houses, the last in the line, .:car the river bank. There are no women in the household, nor has there been. It is the practice of the Albanrans to live in such groups, one nan being appointed housekeeper and paid so much per week.
 No Quarrel
 At the place where Ali lived no quarrel or disturbance of any kind 1 was heard at about the time Ali is supposed to have been murdered. It dered at Goodyear, the body wrapped as described, the chains used being from old speeoers discarded from the mill, and then taken to some point near Attawaugan in some kind of a vehicle and thrown in the river with l the expectation that the stream would forever hide the crime within it's bos- om, the heavy stone helping to ac- this.
 News via Waterbury.
 The first authorities at Goodyear heard that anything suspicious had -ccurred was a few days after Ais | to which not much at tention was paid, for the Albanians come and go at the mill as fancy hap pens to move them. From Waterbury came the information, 9 friend of AIi's it, that he had been mur- 1ered. Local and state police worked on the case. questioned the men who are now locked up, but nothing of value was developed and the case was dropped. No charges have been preferred against the men now held here.
 There is a weeks pay due the dead man at the mill of the Goodyear Cot ton company.
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