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Show AGENTS OF SULTAN OF TURKEY BLAMED FOR CRUEL MURDER Maoedbnlan Refugees in Minneapolis Slaughtered In Hovel' They Called Home. ROBBERY CLEARLY NOT MOTIVE FOR CRIME Fact That Currency and Valuables Were Found with Bodies Proves This International Inter-national Politics at Bottom, Is Theory of Police Officials. Minneapolis. Again tho old saying thnt "murder will out" bids fair to ba I disproved. ' In tho heart of Minneapolis, busy city of tho great Northwest, six apparently ap-parently inoffensive men havo been smelly put to death, and all tho efforts bf men hrcd to tho unraveling of ghastly mysteries havo been unavailing, unavail-ing, cither to find the murderers or to discover a mtiflvo for tho crime. Tho slnyers havo dlsapcared as completely com-pletely as If, Indeed, they wore tho fabled Invisible cloaks. Love Revenge At the bidding of a secret order Becauso tho Turkish government wanted them out of the way. These aro tho various theories formed by the police. And at theories they stop. All that Is positively known ls that six men, marked for murder, Ho in their graves In Minneapolis all six killed by orders of somo ono while they slept. Motives Apparently Absent. Everything sems to point to politics. poli-tics. It was not money, becauso tho men's money nnd other valunbles woro all found Intact. It was not revenge, becauso they knew no ono In Minneapolis. Minne-apolis. It was not love, becauso they had no women, cither as wives or sweethearts, In this country. Thero Is but ono explanation they woro put out of the way by order of somo high political power on tho other sldo of tho water. This ls what tho police believe. What were tho Intricacies Intri-cacies abroad no ono dares surmise. And dead men tell no tales. The six wcro found lying qulto dead In n ramshackle old wooden house, No. 245 South Tenth avenue, Minneapolis. 6o llttlo known wcro they thereabouts that tho pollco had a hard timo In finding find-ing out tho names of tho six. Finally it was found thnt two woro father and eon, Nlcolo and KIrlo Dcmctrl, and that tho other foud wcro Kcrstan Yovke, Krlvlo Metlo, Nukola Jaless and Andrl Jaless. Bodies Not All Together. Tho knives, tho blood-stained hntchet, tho splashes of blood everywhere, every-where, tho disorder, the signs of n Struggle, told the story as plainly ns words could tell it. Four of tho bodies lay about tho front room on tho second floor; tho other two those of tho De- llttlo roms on tho tipper floor. They never drank liquor and wcro apparently appar-ently of tho most peaceable disposition. They went out regularly every day and returned with equal promptitude In tho evening. Even tho people who lived below heard nothing on tbe night of 'tho murder. mur-der. It wns only guessed at because tho men didn't appear on tbo second morning after tho murder. Somo ono notified the landlord nnd he summoned the police. Tlicy hroko In. Peter Stuyanoff knew tho dead men. Ho wns arrested ns a suspect at first, but thoro wns nothing to provo against him. In fnct, he gave tho pollco all tho little they do know. IIo said tho men never had a quarrel In tholr lives nnd never cnrrlcd weapons. Ho Bnld they wcro nil men wlio hnd como over hero to mnko their fortunes, nnd hnd no thought of anything clso but of making mak-ing money and of sending for their loved ones on tho other sldo of tho world. Pathetic Sight nt Morgue. It was a pitiful sight at tho morguo when poor Stuyanoff went thero to Identify his dead friends. Tho sight of tho gaping wounds moved him to tears. Ho knelt beforo each body and mndo tho sign of tho cross as ho breathed a prayer. Then ho aroso to his feet and kissed each dead man on tho brow. When ho Anally enmo to the body of his cousin, young Yovke, ho was completely overcome. over-come. Great tears rolled down his swarthy checks; his big red handkerchief handker-chief was soon soaked with them. Ho look tho head of tho murdered boy In his arms nnd kissed tho still face again and again. Then ho left the room slinking with grief. "They would not hurt a fly; would not hurt a fly I" ho moaned over and over. Fought Hard for Life. When tho houso of slaughter was searched n lamp was found burning In tho rear room upstair. A light had been seen thero tho night beforo. It looked, however, as It tho bodies found In tho cellar had ben dead longer than tho others. This only added to the mystery. Both bodies wero terribly hewed nnd hacked. In nil, tho six bodies between them boro more than 100 wounds, almost al-most any ono of them sufficient to kill any able-bodied mnn. Thero woro great motrls lay la a dirty, muddy base-ment, base-ment, whore thoy had been dumped by tho murderers. Not n thing was found on nny of tho mon to glvo nbsoluto proof of their identities. Even tho landlord, H. Mng-nusson, Mng-nusson, didn't know their names. All ho cared about was thnt tho mon had paid four months' rent In ndvanco when thoy camo thero a week before. Th men ate, slept nnd lived In tbo splashes of blood all over tho walls nnd floors, and It seemed as If tho dend, aroused from their sleep, had mndo a desperate flght for life, but in vain. Two big bowlo knives woro found In tho room with tho four. Two moro lay In nuothor room. A fifth, In Its sheath, lay In tho basement bosldo tho Do-metrls. Do-metrls. Then thoro was tho hatchet and not another clew "Robbery!" snld tho police, as a first guess, but that was knocked In the head when a money belt was found In plain sight, containing $602, besides many other articles of value. Finally tho knives woro traced by trade mnrks upon them. Thomas Wilson, Wil-son, clerk of tho ICclley Hnrdwaro Company, In Uuluth, Identified them as having been bought nt tho storo , by a party of six foreigners a week beforo tho murder. That theso wcro ' tho six murderers, one for ench of tho intended victims, thero can now bo no ' doubt. Plainly tho dead six had been mnrked for vengeance. j Their trail has been followed from far across tho sous to the hidden fnst-! ncsst of tho far Northwest by men who evidently had Bworn to kill. They hnd I trnced their quarry to Albion, Minn., a tiny town, nnd from thence to Du-luth. Du-luth. When the bIx enmo to Minneapolis Minne-apolis they were hunted still. Had Fled Far to Find Safety. Aiding to tho mystery, tho vestments vest-ments of Borne order, religious or so-cret, so-cret, were found In tho houso. What had these to jlo with tho strango denths? But most rcmnrkablo of all was tho plain proof thnt tho six had lied half-way around tho world to escape es-cape their mysterious pursuers. Passports proved this without doubt. The papers boro tho earmarks of f'Ayn.i mi Turkey, Greece, Italy and the Balkan States. Their money, their foreign coins of gold, several checks and money orders wcro nil found Intact. Thoy had not been pursued to be robbed. What wns It. then? Thcro had been no drinking bout. Neither wlno nor spirits, or empty bottles or glasses woro found. There wns no lovo affair, apparently, at tho bottom of It Tho men knew no women wo-men In this country. It mny havo been tho vendetta, who knows? But everything every-thing to-dny points to politics. And now comes tho story told by tho passports, that seems to point to pollt-cal pollt-cal murder. Thcro wcro two passports pass-ports found nmong tho holonglngs of tho murdered men. One wns Issued to young Demctrl on January 25, 1005. This was a passport from Macedonia. Issued by the Turkish government, it bore tho seal of tho sultan. Half of tho document wns In French, tho other half In Turkish. It described him ns smooth-shaven, nbout 33 yen '8 of age, medium size, n nntlvo of Macedonia and a subject of His Imperial Majesty tho Sultan. The other passports wero old and lndo-chlpcrablo. lndo-chlpcrablo. Strengthens Theory of Politics. And this pointed to tho politics of tho , case. Tho Macedonian rebellion toolc plnco nbout two yenrs ngo. Tho pollco at onco accepted this theory and wont to work on It. But the murdorors had covered their tracks too well. This much tho pollco bellovo: That tho victims woro leaders of tho rebellion and fled to this country and that tholr murderers wero agents of tho Turkish government. Tho idea is thnt thoy fled here, woll knowing thoy would bo followed, but hoping to oscapo Into tho fnr Northwest, whgro perhaps thoy might bo safe. They went West In tho gulso of rnllwny laborers to es-capo es-capo pursuit. But those whoso appointed task was to kill wero cleverer than thoy nnd wero always closo behind. Though the chaso led half way around tho world, tho Turkish ngonts found their quarry In an obscure corner of Minneapolis and then went deliberately about tho Job of killing.. They bided tholr time. Whon all six wero rounded up together and asleop, and when nil wns quiet and deserted without, they stolo Inside and upstairs to finish tho Job for which they had como so fnr. Tho dead men wero not caught entirely en-tirely by surprise. Thoro aro plenty of signs thnt they struggled desperately against overwhelming odds. All tho furnlturo was upset, showing that thoro wns a struggle beforo tho mon who hud been aroused from their sleep to go to their death had not given U without a whimper. Every body bore wounds enough to kill a dozen mon. Imagine It, thon tho semi-darkness, lighted dimly by ono feeble kerosene lamp nt tho window, tho silent cn-trnnco cn-trnnco of the murderers into the gloom; tho sudden nwnkening of some ono of tho doomed when his wound did not kill him nt the first blow; his crlc3 to tho others, their sudden awakening, too; tho clash of the steel, tho cries of tho unarmed victims ns they vnlnly tried to fight off tho tho knives, the grappling, wrestling, biting, scratching of men fighting weapons with only their hands; tho thrust nt head and heart; tho death rattle of ono after another until thcro wns nono left to die. Then tho drngglng of two of the bodies to tho mouth of the black pit that passed tor n cellar, tho dumping of them down Into tho hole, nnd Anally An-ally tho flight Into tho murky darkness dark-ness of tho dawn. Evidences of Conflict. It was a sight to terrify when tho pollco broke- In. Tho six wcro stono dend, but there was plenty of cvidenco that every ono had fought for his llfo till, weak from loss of blood In tho unequal un-equal contest, lie had fallen nt tho feet of his enemy to receive his coup. After satisfactory Identification had been mo le, nnd tho authorities hnd mode their preliminary inquires, the bodies wero burled together. A Mlnnc. npolls medical collego attempted to get them for dissection, by right of a law allowing them tho bodies of nil paupers paup-ers without kith or' kin, but when the $502 wns shown tho college had to glvo In. Tho pollco havo worked hard, but nothing turned up. They hnvo been to Chicago and to Duluth, where thero aro othor Macedonians, but not a single clow has como to anything. And now, "Who killed tho six?" seems to bid fair to go down Into history his-tory ns ono of the greatest murder mysteries of tho century. |
