Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-04-27
GREEK MEETS GREEK
one IS KILLED IN TUG OF war
that ENSUES.
Theodore kaarOniS is Shot and FILLED
by Chris. POppaS in East Aberdeen
Friday Evening. Jealousy Over a
Narried Woman Said to be the
Cause.

The residents ofthe vicinity of East
Wishkah and Newell streets were
startled about $3.50 o'clock Friday
evening by two pistol shots, fired by
Chris. POppas, Greek, and, as a re-
suit of the shots Theodore Kaaronis,
also Greek, lies in the Bowes e.
Randolph morgue, and Poppas is in
Jail charged with his murder.
Kaaronis and Poppas had quarreled
over married woman, it is said, and
when they met Friday evening the
trouble was renewed. Poppas says
he met Kaaronis on the corner of
Newell and Wishkah streets, where
they had some angry words, when
Kaaronis suddenly attacked him with
razor, and that he drew his pistol
and fired one shot into the sidewalk
to scare him off, but that Kaaronis
continued the attack, and he was
obliged to shoot to kill. The bullet
struck him in the breast near the
heart, and he doubled up and ran
down Wishkah street, falling dead in
front of the Greek boarding house,
719 East Wishkah street.
Poppas, after the shooting, ran up
on the Dabney hill, but soon came
down and went to his boarding house
on Summit street, from whence he
was taken to the city jail by Sargeant
Searles. and where he appeared glad
to go, as he plainly feared summary
vengeance at the hands of the friends
Of his victim. Jack McDougal, who
lives near the scene, heard the shots
and, going to the door saw the men
running. He fired two rifle shots to
attract the police, which caused the
murdered man to suspect McDougal
was also after him, as his last words
were Jack and Chris"
Coroner Girard held an inquest on
the body Saturday afternoon, and the
jury returned the finding that Kaar-
onis came to his death from a gun
shot wound inflicted by Poppas, and
the latter will have a preliminary
examination before Judge Lanning
tomorrow.
At the inquest it transpired that
Mrs. Jack McDougal was in some way
mixed up in the tragedy. 1t is a mat
ter of common knowledge in the
neighborhood that the two Greeks
were on very familiar footing with
Mrs. McDougal, who is comely
woman of about 35, with a number
of children. The men were in the
habit of visiting her in the day time,
when her husband was at work, and
the neighbOrs were not slow to notice
that the children We're locked out in
the street, and the window blinds
drawn at such times. Mrs. McDougal
claimed to have been giving lessons
in English to Kaaronis.
On the night of the murder, Mrs.
McDougal according to her testi-
mony, met Poppas five minutes before
the shooting at the corner of Wish
kah and Newell streets. He stopped
her and wanted to talk, but she was
in hurry and left him and walked
to her home, across the street. Geo.
Garvis and Ernest Collins, who car
ried the dead man into the house,
were quite willing to talk on the
night of Poppas' arrest, but appeared
quite reticent at the inquest.
County Attorney Boner did not
deem it wise to go very deeply into
the case at the inquest, simply desir-
ing the finding that the shot was fired
by Poppas. At the examination to-
morrow the matter will be more deep
ly probed, and some sensational de-
YelOpmentS are eXnected