Show AGENTS OF SULTAN OF TURKEY BLAMED FOR CRUEL MURDER macedonian refugees in minneapolis slaughtered in hovel they called home ROBBERY CLEARLY NOT MOTIVE FOR CRIME fact that Curren currency cV and valuables were found with bodies proves this international politics at bottom Is theory of police officials 1 minneapolis Minne epolis again the old that murder will out bids fair to be disproved in the heart of minneapolis busy city of the great northwest six ap patently parent ly inoffensive men have been smelly put pat to and all the efforts effort of men inen bred to the unraveling of ghastly mysteries masteries mas ms teries have been unavale ing either to find the murderers or to discover a motive for the crime the blazers have as aa corn com plemely as it indeed they wore the tabled fabled invisible cloaks love revenge at the bidding of a secret order because the alie turkish government wanted them out of the way these are the various theories formed by the police and at theories they stop all that Is posit hely known Is that six men marked for murder lie in their graves in minneapolis all six killed by orders of one while they slept motives apparently absent everything seeg to point to poll ties it was not money because the mens money and other valuables were all found intact it was A as not greengo rei engo because they knew no one in manne apolis it was nas not love because they had no women either as s mes M es or sweet sweethearts hearts in th this is countr country y there la Is but one they were put out of the way by order of some high political power on the other side of the water mater this Is what the police believe what were the inari cades abroad no one dares surmise and dead men tell no tales the six were found roubil lying quite dead in a ramshackle old wooden house no south tenth avenue minneapolis SO bo little known they thereabouts that tat the police had a hard time in find ing out the names of the six finally it was found that two were father and pon oon nicolo and kirle demetri and that the other foud fond were kerstan lovke drivie betle hukola baless and andri baless bodies not all together the knives the blood stained fatchet ta the splashes of blood every where here the disorder the signs of a struggle told the story as plainly as words could tell it four of the bodies lay about the front room on the second floor the other two those of the de little roms boms ou on the upper floor they neer drink liquor and were appner antly of the most peaceable disposition they vent out regularly evcic day and returned with equal promptitude in the evening een the people who lived below heard nothing on the night of the mar der it was aas only guessed at because the men dian didn t appear on the second second morning after the murder some one noti notified fid the landlord and ire summoned summon pd the police they broke in peter knew the dead men lie ile was arrested as a suspect at first but there aas nothing to prove against him in tact fact he gave the police all the little they do know lie ile said the men never its had a quarrel in their lives and never carried weapon 4 ile he said bald they wire all men who had come over heie to make their the r fortunes foi fo tunes and had no thought of anything else hut but of mak ing money and of bending for their loved ones nn n the r side of the world pathetic sight at morgue it was a pitiful sight at the morgue when poor Stu ianoff anoff went thre to identity identify his big dead friends the sight of the gaping wounds moved him to ile he knelt before each body and made the sign of the choss as he be breathed a prayer then he arose to hla his ctet and kissed each dead man on tho the brow when lie be finally came to the body of hla his cousin young lovke boyke he was as completely over come great tears rolled down lite hla swarthy cheeks his big red banaker chief was roon FOOD soaked with them lie took the head of the murdered boy in his arms and alamed the still tac fabj agata again and then he be left thu tho room shaking wih ailef gi lef they would not hurt a fly would not hurt a fly he be moaned over and over fought hard for life when the house of slaughter slaught pr was searched a lamp was found burning la in the rear room A light had been seen there the night before it looked however as if the bodies found in the cellar had ben dead longer than the others this only added to tho the mystery both bodies were terribly hewed and hacked in all the six bodies between them bore more than wounds at al most any one of them sufficient to kill any able bodied man there were great trivie yo v r E METE Z 4 A DEMETRI dalem AND r V I 1 jt 11 55 metris lay in a dirty muddy basement where they tad lad been bea dumpf by the murderers not a thing was A as found on any of the men to give absolute proof tit of their identities even the landlord lanu ord 11 II mag cusson dian didn t know names all he be cared about was that the men had pali paid four months rent in advance when they camo came there 1 t week before tho th men aen ate slept and lived in the splashes of blood all over the walls and floors boors and it seemed as if the dead aroused from their sleep had made a desperate tight for life hut but in vain two big bowle knives were found in the room with tho the four two more lay in another room A fifth in its sheath lay in the basement beside the DP de then there was tae arto let et and not another clew robbery 1 said the police aa a 9 first guess but t thai A was as knocked la in the head when a money belt wa was found 11 lo 10 plain sight containing 02 besides tilary other articles 0 of value finally the knives were traced by trade marks upon them thomas wll wit son clerk of the kelley hardware company in duluth identified them as having been bought at the stoie by a parti of six a wick before the duider that these were the he six murd murderers eiers ore for each of the tha intended can now be no doubt plainly the dead six had been marked for vengeance their biall has haa bien ben followed from far the seas to tho the hidden fast ness dees of the tha far northwest by men who evidently had sworn to kill they had traced their quarry to albion minn a tiny town and from chenco to du luth when the six come came to minne apolis they atre re hunted still had pled fled far to find safety alding aiding to the mastery ins tery the vest mento menla of 0 some order religious or so cret were found in the house what had these to do ft ith the strange deaths diat liB but roost most lemar haMo of all vas as the plain proof that the six had fled halfway balfay around the world to os es cap their mysterious loiis pursuers pur stiers passports mowd bowd this without doubt the papers bore the earmarks of turkey greece italy and the balkan states their monea mone their foreign coins of gold several checks and money ciders were all found intact they had not been pursued to be robbed what was it then there had been no drinking bout neither wine nor spirits or empty bottles or glasses were found there was no love affair apparently at the bottom of it the men knew no women in this country it may have been the vendetta nho knows dut every thing today points to politics and now comes the th story told by the passports that seems to point to cat cal murder thre were two pass ports found among the belongings of the murdered men one was issued to young demetri on january 25 1905 1906 this was a passport from macedonia issued by the turkish government it bore the seal of the sultan suit in half of the document as in french the other half in turkish it described hi him m as smooth shaven about 33 sea a of age medium size a native of macedonia and a subject of ills imperial majesty the sultan the other passports were old and inde chip erable strengthens theory of politics and this pointed to the politics politic ii of the case the macedonian rebellion bellion ie took place about two no years ago the polive police at once accepted his abig theory find went to work on it but the murderers had covered their hacks too well this much the police bellee that the victims were ere leaders of the rebellion and fled to this country and that their murderers were agents of the turkish government the idea Is that they fled here well vell knowing they would be followed but hoping to escape into the far northwest where perhaps they might be safe they went west in the guise of railway rail vay laborers to PS es cape but those whose appointed task was wai to kill were cleverer than they and were always done close behind though the chase led halt half way ay around tho the world the he turkish agents found their quarry in an obscure coiner of and then went about the lob iob of killing hilling they bided their time when all six were rounded up together and asleep and when hen all was quiet and deserted without thy stole stele inside and ephtalia talia to finish the job for which they had come so BO far the dead men were not caught en by surprise there are plenty of signa that they struggled desperately against overwhelming odds all the furniture ams upset showing that heie was a struggle before the men who lad been lideo aroused flora ther thear sleep to go to their death had bad not no given give 1 without a whimper every body bore r b wounds enough to kill 1111 a don doen m mon imagine it then the tha darkness lighted dimly by ono one feeble ceble Ite roseno lamp at the window the silent en trance of tho the murderers into the gloom the sudden aak awakening ening of some borne one of the doomed when his wound did not kill hill him at the first blow his cries to the their sudden awakening too the clash of the steel el eel the cries of the una tined vict lins as they vainly tried to fight oft off the tho the knives the grappling wrestling biting scratching of men fighting ie weniona apons with only their hands the at head nna and heart the death rattle of one after another until there was wai none done left to die ahen I 1 hen the dragging of two of the bodies to the mouth of the he black pit that passed for a cellai the dumping of them down doan into the holo hole and fin ally the flight into the murky darkness of the dawn evidences of conflict it was a sight to terrify when tho the police broke in rho rhe six were atone dead but there was N as plenty of evidence that every one had bail fought for his life till weak from loss of blood in the unequal contest lie he had fallen at the feet of his enemy to recene his coup after identification had been ra nis le ie and the auchoi aties had I 1 1 4 lq A I 1 I 1 1 0 I 1 t 4 orr 71 az made their preliminary inquires the tha bodies were mere burled to together kether A minneapolis medical coll college ego attempted to git them for dissection by right of a law all allowing alloying them the bodies of all paup ers era without kith or kin but when the was aas shown the college had to give in lite police have bave worked hard but nothing turned up they have nen to chicago calago and to duluth where there are other macedonians Macedon ians but not a single clew has come to anything and now who killed hilled the six seems to bid fair to go down into history as one of the greatest murder mysteries of 0 the century |