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Show UU 1 BURGLARS COMMIT HORRIBLE MURDER New York. April 5. Otto Zlnn, a restaurant keeper and two of his employes em-ployes were killed early today In Zlnn's restaurant, supposedly by burglars. burg-lars. Zlnn and his wife were awakened awak-ened by a crash downstairs and tho proprietor went down to Investigate. When he failed to return his wife-called wife-called a policeman, who found the restaurant keeper and his two employes em-ployes dead in the cellar. In the cellar was also fouud a safe which had been moved from a place on the floor above and evidently-thrown evidently-thrown down stairs. It had not been broken open A revolver and a set of burglar's tools were the only clues discovered. Beside tho dead men lay three bloody cleavers with which the burglars burg-lars bad battered in thoir victims' heads. The police found also a re-1 volver and a set of burglar tools. There was evidence that the men I who committed the crime had se-! creted themselves in the cellar after eating a meal in the restaurant At first they had tried to cut through the floor under the safe but. foiled in this attempt by a large beam, they had gone upstairs after the place closed and rolled the safe Into the cellar The porter and the cook had' been surprised and killed when they1 came down to get coal. The pro-; prietor apparentlj had surprised the; thieves at work trying to open thei safe The two employes were Ronan Hell), porter, and Stephen Bovorisky, cook. |