Waterbury Evening Democrat

MISSING PARTS ARE FOUND

New York, Sept 24. Up to an early hour to-day the police had made practically no progress in unraveling the mystery surrounding the finding of portions of the body of a murdered man in a pit at West Thirty-sixth street and Eleventh avenue. The ghastly find was made nearly twenty-four hours before. The trunk of the man, mutilated such as was that of Guldensuppe, the victim of the notorious murder of nine years ago; the forearms and the lower parts of the legs were recovered, but diligent search of the neighborhood failed to reveal the head or the thighs. The place where portions of the body were found is near the river and the police believe the head was thrown overboard.

The only clue which furnished any results yesterday was the gunnysack upon which was printed the name "Z. K. Mano." It was found that Mano, who died several weeks ago, had been an importer of nuts. He was an Armenian and had his place of business at No 67 Washington street, the heart of the Syrian and Armenian colony. He left a widow, who a few days ago sold out his entire stock preparatory to giving up the business.

It was learned last night that Mano had a brother Jack, who had had trouble with his Syrian neighbors because of some business deal in the settlement of the estate. It was said that Jack had gone into hiding a few days ago because of threats made against his life. Some of the Syrians declared that the description of the body at the morgue tallied with that of the missing man.

The dead man was of foreign extraction, either an Italian, an Armenian or a Syrian.

Coroner's Physician Weston advanced a theory that impressed the police.

"From the condition of the torso," he said, "I am sure that a murder was committed after midnight, and I also believe that three men disposed of the remains. Very probably each of the three carried a portion and meant to throw it into the river.

"They got frightened, possibly, and one of them threw the body into this hole. Another ran into the freight yard, and seeing the car door open flung his load inside. The third kept on to the river and hurled the bag far out into the water.

"As to cutting up of the body, I am inclined to think whoever attended to this part of the crime must have had some knowledge of anatomy. At the same time, a good butcher might have done the work."

During the forenoon one of the thighs was found at Eleventh avenue and Thirty-eighth street. The police were engaged in searching for the head of the missing man and until that was found had little hope of identifying the body.

The police were busy to-day also in trying to trace five men who were seen Saturday night first pursuing and later beating a man in West Thirty-sixth street not far from the spot where the torso was afterward found. A watchman told the police to-day that he witnessed the pursuit and assault, but then thought it was only a street brawl common to that neighborhood and did nothing to stop it.

The missing thigh was found wrapped in a burlap bag in an empty railroad car in a freight yard near the place where the arms and the lower portion of the legs were found yesterday. In another bundle was a short portion of a leg below the knee.