The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-03
NABS MAN BEFORE
MURDER Is KNOWN
Policeman Finds Bloodstained
Knife and Money Belt in
Suspects Pocket.
LATER VICTIM rs FOUND
Albanian Slashed to Death
for $500 He Carried Around
His Waist.

Patrolman william r. Short was
walking his beat in Stanton street yes
terday about noon. He approached Or
chard street and noticed two men, for
eigners, standing on the corner Of Stan
ton street. They seemed to be excited
and when they saw the patrolman COM
Ing one Of them ran up Orchard street
and the other ran down Stanton street
As one tried to pass him Patrolman
Short grabbed him
Whats the troubleT asked the pa
trolman.
mo spik Angleesh." replied the man
Patrolman Short had very strong
feeling that there was something wrong.
although there was nothing about the
man to indicate It. So he retained his
hold Of tho mans arm and began turn
ing him around and looking at him
Presently he noticed protrudlng from the
mans coat pocket tiny piece OF bed
ticking not more than half an inch long
Short jerked the ticking from the mans
pocket despite the latter's voluble pro-
tests, gave II a shake, and out OF II fell
n stained leather money belt. blood
stained clasp knife with a blade some
four inches long. a gold ring and a gold
with a purplish stain that looked to the
patrolman like blood.
|, Patrolman Short Immediately took
the man to the Fifth street station
where he said In fairly good English
that his name was Ralph Moosha. that
he had recently come to New York from
Pittsburg where he worked in the steel
mills and that he had been living with
his brother-in-law in 1s1 Forsythe street.
Ia
the man about the money belt and the
bloody knife.
Moosha Immediately lapsed into ST.
lerce. He said he was a foreigner and
could not speak English. The police
sent out and got Greek, Turkish and
Jewish interpreters. but Moosha was
unable to speak any of these languages.
He said he was an Albanian. So the
police got an Albanian interpreter and
then Moosha began talking English
again.
The story he told the police was tn at
he had met two Bulgarians earlier in
the day who had taken him to some
house in a street and had told him 10
wait for them on the sidewalk. They
had then gone into the house. In few
moments. Moosha said. they came out.
stuck Into his hands the ticking and
everything that was wrapped IN It and
| toiu MN 70 run. no TAI. Det6CtlVS
Williamson went out with Moosha and
tramped about the East Side for two
hours without finding the two Bulgar-
ians or any house that Moosha could
Identify as the one the two Bulgarians
had entered. So Moosha was taken
back to the police station.
At 3:15 o'clock three excited foreign
ers rushed UP TO Patroman Louis Gets
! In Orchard street near Stanton, and
| told the policeman that a man had
been killed on the fourth floor rear OF
! 1876 Orchard street They told the Off.
/ Ger that the man had been cut to pieces
and that the room was soaked in blood
Gels found the body of Dervish Muha.
reni. an Albanian Three long gashe,
had been cut with q knife In his aldo
men. and a piece of the bed ticking had
been cut away The police say that the
gashes in the money belt and in the
money inside the belt--four $50 bills
correspond exactly with the gashes ir
the dead mans body. On the gold watch
which Moosha had wrapped in the tick.
| ing found on him was a small piece OF
chain. In Muharenis vest pocket was
a small piece of watch chain which the
: police say was of the same pattern and
| fitted exactly into the piece.
Moosha was locked up, charged with
| homicide