The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-13
Concealed by His COuntrymen,
StaniSa Mesich Is Still
at Large.
DEAD MAN BRANDED
AS BAD CHARACTER
AustrianS. However, viii Give
Him Big Funeral With
Brass Band.

Concealed by his fellow.countrymcn
S,anisa Mesich, the Austrian. who shot
Herman Obrovitch. another Austrian,
10 death Monday evening, is still at
large, For all tho police know he may
he walking the streets of Salt Lake in
the open light of day, for they would
NOT know him from a load Of hay if
they met him on Main street They
have n dozen different descriptions of
him. and every Austrian they intcrro-
gate gives them new one.
In all probability. were Mcsich to
surrender himself to the law. he would
be exonerated. The man he killed stole
his wife and money and then, when
The wife returned to her husband, Obro-
witch. according to the testimony of re.
liable witnesses, made repeated threats
80 kill the husband. The threats alone,
il is claimed. would constitute sufficient
Justification for the shooting.
But, ignorant of American law,
Nosich has chosen to conceal himself,
and so far he has done so effectually.
There seems 10 be conspiracy of
silence among the Austrians as 10 his
rtC,eabouts. No trace of him could
=" found Tuesday at Garfield where he
lives.
Grand Funeral for Obrovitch.
CaiertaEcr T. c. O'DonneI is having
tha time of his life with the Austrian
colony arranging for the funeral Of
Cn-Gei,ch Nearly a hundred Austrians
-ig..-l 5hc . Donncl undertaking par
l5-s Tuesday, and they would shake
- 'v Ee!s At The corpse and utter male
.c,a'i0nS upon the dead man. indicating
Z urIcf that nc got what he deserved.
Hjt there seems 10 be q rule among
Ire AustriaNs that, despite q man : mis-
deeds. he must De given grand funeral.
50 "a Austrian society has taken charge
o. The arrangements They instructed
. 'pounc TO hire n brass band, which
he agreed to do. Then they insisted
on placing forty candles around the
bier. and here O'Donuel ballSed AL
though good Catholic himself. he had
visions of his undertaking establishment
going mp in smoke and declared that
no Austrian wake would be pulled off
therein. Obrovitch, therefore. is going
10 glory without any candles. The
date Of the funeral was not fixed.
The killing. moreover, has furnished
an eXcuse for several score Austrians To
get drunk. Drunken Austrians were
frequent visitors 10 the morgue during
all Of Tuesday. and O O'Donnel solemuly
TelCNeS indt so mHch Austrian money
will be spent for bad wbiskey that there
VIII he no money 10 pay for the coffin,
let alone hiring a brass band.
Obrovitch a Bad Man.
The Austrians are a unit in declaring
that OhrovItch was a bad character.
Some two months ago he was arrested
for assaulting another Austrian with q
gun but the charge was finally reduced
to one of carrying concealed weapons
lie was allowed To 90 when brought to
trial because he had already lain in
jail twenty days waiting TO be tried
for assault with a deadly weapon
ore story is that the man Obrovitch
assaulted with the gun was a friend of
Mesich, and that his ofrense consisted
IN criticising Obrovitch for stealing his |
5 wife. IT is impossible TO
verify this story. as il is TO verify |
almost any other story told by the Aus !
TRANS,
1t is claimed. also. that some weeks
ago Mesich tried TO get warrant from
the County Attorney s Office for Obro.
witch and Mrs Mesich, but this story
is somewhat hazv. too. Mrs Mesich is |
still in Jail, and Will be held there for |
Il day or two III the hope that her
husband will show himself in an effort |
10 get her ont, She can Z talk English. |
and seems resigned to whatever fate
may be mcted ont to her