The New York herald., 1920-01-11
Struck with Hatchet While
Writing Letter for Man He
Had Befriended.
BODY is FOUND BY
HIS AGED FATHER
Suspected Murderer Was Sent t
Prison for Attacking Girl Cousin
of Dead Man.

DR.. Jack D. Hanania, a studious and
industrious young dentist. principal main
stay Of large family, was murdered yes
terday morning in his office, at No. 81
East 11Sth street. while writing a recon-
mendation for employment for Isaac Isa-
kowitz, whom the family had befrended
and who is now on parole from Sing Sing
Prison. The murder was committed with
la hatchet.
Two women who sat in the reception
room adjoining heard only sounds as of
a slight scuffle, so quickly was the crime
committed.
Isakowitz. according IA the story told
to the police by David Hanania, father of
the dentist, had entered the office just a
few minutes before the murder and dis
appeared Immediately after. Isakowitz
according to information given to Captain
Carey. of the Homicide Bureau, and to
DR.. Benjamin Schwartz, assistant to the
chief medical examiner, by the family of
the murdered dentist, was sentenced to
Sing Sing for a murderous attack made
upon Miss Rose Fa,oon her father, Sam
uel Falcon, and her mother, about six
years ago, when Isakowitz had boarded
with them at No. East 115th street
Miss Falcon, the immediate object of
the attack at that time is cousin of
the slain dentist. and the two families
live in the same apartment
Sought by the Police.
The police are now looking for Isako.
WITT. Detectives watched the steamship
piers all yesterday. believing that lre would
attempt to leave the country.
| Captain Carey last night said that nc
was at loss for motive for the crime
Or. Hanania was not robbed Jealousy
apparently played no part in the staying
as the dentist was not engaged 20 be
married and was not paying particular at.
| tention to a young woman, so far as the
family knew. He worked all day in his
office and every night went to the New
York College of Dental surgery.
Mr.. Falcon, uncle OF the dentist, SAID
that Isakowitz had talked OF marriage tc
one of DR.. Hananias young sisters. but
had been repulsed. Whether this fact
threw any light on the murder had not de-
veloped last night
DR.. Hananias family were Turkish
Jews 1t being Saturday all OF the family
except Mr.. Hanania. who is sixty years
| old. and one of his married daughters
had gone to a syngagosue About clever
clock three women we're in the dentists
office. Miss Rose Fast or NO. 1 East 1870
street, was in the chair having her teeth
tended to. while the other women were
in the reception room adjoining.
Women Become Suspicious.
About half-past eleven o'clock Tsakowit;
rang the bell to the dentists door Mr.
Hanania let him in, as lsakowitz had beer
| coming to the office for some time fol
treatment and recently had paid the den
tist $50. Just what happened there is no
| known. as Miss Fast went out of the office
ust as IsakowitZ entered.
The two women who had been waiting
became impatient at their delay. knowini
the other patient had left. They rose and
went into the living rooms of DR.. Hananis
and told the aged father they thought
/ something must be wrong.
| The father started into the dentists Of
flee and then staggered BACK IN faint
His son lay on the floor with his head
literally chopped to pieces
/ Mr. Hanania's screams attracted HE
daughter, who ran to MS assistance from
the dining room, and Mrs. Peari Oshen
who dives on the fourth floor. They car
ried Tho ared man back from the scene
Tho vounr dentists head had been hacked
with n sharn hatchet The hatchet, a new
one. lay on the floor. According to Dr.
schwartz. an one Of the blows was suffi.
cient TO have caused death
KILLED while writing.
On the dentists desk Which stood close
| to his chair, was an unVohpieteu hosc'
reading:-
number of years. -
Evidently the dentist had been struck
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