The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-11
MURDER IS DUE
TO ILLICIT LOVE
Austrian Shot to Death by HuS-
band of Woman He EIoped
With.
SIX BULLETS IN HIS BODY
SLAYER is AT LARGE, HIS WIFE
UNDER ARREST.


y + + = : 4 y + 4 y
= The Murdered Man-Mike y
\ oberodervich, Austrian, % years =
y old. Shot six times in back, =
y chest and shoulder. +
= The Alleged sIayer-stanisa +
= Misieh, supposedly; restaurant =
= keeper at Garfield. +
+ Motive-Revenge for the ad- =
+ buction of Misieh's wife and the =
= theft from him by OberoderVich =
= and the woman Of 500 two =
= months ago.
= Time-About o'clock last =
\ night.
y Piace-cheap lodging shack at =
= west end of new Vladuet over =
= Oregon Short Line tracks at =
= North Temple street.
= Developments Oberodervich's y
= body at O'DonneIi's undertaking =
\ parIors; Mrs. Misich detained at =
y police headquarters; police seek =
= went to Garfield.
4 y \ = \ = + = =
/ A feud of about two months standing
between two Austrians came to a murder
GUS end at o'clock last night in a cheap
railroad lodging shack on North Temple
street at the west end of the new viaduct
over the Oregon Short Line tracks. when
Mike Oberodervich, % years old, Austrian,
was shot to death by another Austrian.
believed to be Stanisa Misich, 26 years old,
| a restaurant and boarding house keeper
at Garfield.
Mike Gobache, an Austrian workman.
witnessed the murder and declares that
| Msich is the man who did the shooting
The entire police force is looking for
Misich and at a late hour this morning
/ he was still a large.
The body of the murdered man is at
o DOnnells undertaking pariOrs with six
bullet wounds. One bullet entered tho
right side of the back; three entered the
| left shoulder a little to one side of the
center; one entered the right hand side
of the chest and one a few inches below
I the heart.
Woman in the Case.
The woman in the case is AMIGA Misieh,
wife of the man the police are looking
for. The police searched the city for her
until midnight last night when she was
found by a Herald reporter sitting a
box near a freight car in the oregon
Short Line yards in the rear of the Nice
& Easy saloon, 30 North Third West
street. She is q pretty type Of foreigner
with a pair of blue eyes and hair of
dark brown. Her features are rather
pretty and she has been crying ever since
she was found and taken to police head
quarters.
Last nights murder is unduestionabIv
of n oil run mn he
BY OberOdeTViCh the dead man. and An
lea, the wife of the Garfield restaurant
keeper. OberOdervich came to Salt Lake
about four months ago from Kansas
City. He worked here and there and spent
his spare time gambling. Several weeks
after his arrival he became engaged in n
violent quarrel with Steve Melich, Bing-
ham Junction saloonkeeper. one night IN
the Little Austria saloon. 50 North Third
west street, OberOdervich threatened TO
kill Melich- The latter, with the assist
ance of George Belich. swore out war
rant for OberOdervich's arrest and he was
locked uD on the charge of carrying a
deadly weapon and given short term in
the city Jail. Upon his release he went
to Garfield and there met Misich and
his wife. He made love ardent1y to the
latter and finally succeeded two months
ago in inducing her to eiOpe with him to
Ely New Before they left they stole 500
from Misich. The woman practically ad-
mitted the theft of the money last night
Misich came to Salt Lake shortly after
Oberodervich and his wife went TO Ely,
and with George Belich they went TO Gov
ernor Cutler. according to statements
made by Belich last night. and tried to
make arrangements for the arrest OF the
couple and to secure requlsltlon papers
for them. The thing was dropped. how
ever. and Oberodervich and Anica re-
manned in Ely. The Austrian was gamb-
ling mad and lost the money he had stol-
en- from Misich. Several days ago, &C
cOrding 10 the woman's story. they were
driven from Ely because Oberodervich
| | cheated at gambling in the mining camp
They arrived in Salt Lake last Saturday
afternoon and the woman says she re-
fused to stay longer with her lover be
cause he mistreated her and she went to
Garfield Saturday night to find her hus-
band.
Wanted More Money.
Oberodervich hunted up some Of his old
cronies in the west part of town SATURDAY.
, and Sunday. Half a dozen Austrians tes-
| titled last night they had seen him Sat
; urdav and Sunday morning.
| IT is believed ne went to Garfield Sun
: day night and sought to obtain more
money from Misich The latter came
to Salt Lake YESTERDAY afternoon and told
George Belich at the Bismarck that Oher-
! odervieh came to him in Garfield late
Sunday night and wanted 500, Threatening
| to kill him if he didn't get il. He wanted
( Belich to get another warrant out for his
arrest and this was 10 have been done
today.
; Misicb's wife followed her husband 70
Salt Lake yesterday. and about $50 or
O'Clock last night went into the saloon OF
: Guy Cappuccio's at pa West South Tenn
pie street known as the Garfield. Shortly
after she left the place her husband came
= in and asked If she had been there He
| was told that she had just left and he
went out Shortly after o'clock Obero-
dervich came in and was told that Mrs.
! Nis,ch had left shortly before. Both men
: went across the viadrct over the Oregon
Short Line tracks on North Temple street
D TO the long row of shacks that stands
near the west end Of the viaduct for the
Austrian railroad laborers.