The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-18
Androus Roumefates. Who Is
a Principal Witness in the
Kothiaftis Murder Case, Is
Shot in Back d. Gus Gets.
SHOOTING MARKS THIRD
CHAPTER in OLD FEUD
The Crime Is Committed in a
COWardly Madner in Crowd
ed POOIrOom I'm Greektown
and Friends Pl eyent Capture
MORE TROUBLE EXPECTED

Shot by an assassi b who crept upon
MN from the rear while he stood
watching a game Of billiards in the
washington billiard rooms IN West
Second South street last night. An.
drous Roumeliates flied at 2 o'clock
TINS morning at st Marks hospital.
Greektown Is IN an uprOar and
more swift, sudde1 deaths are ex-
pected before the week is ont The
shooting marks the| third chapter in
the bloody feud betfeen the two fac
tlons OF the Creek headed by the
Gets and Kothiaftb families.
The victim of last lights tragedy was
cousin or John Kotiiaftis who was ac-
quilted in the district court Yesterday Of
the charge of murdarfug Peter CetIs
cousin Os Gus Gets A. Bingham CANYON
enc year ago. ROumelates was also chief
witness for the defenIe and had pu+ IN
much of his money Il help his cousin to
tight the charge.
No sooner had the Hurry brought In a
verdict of not guilty than three members
Of the Gets family ltft the court room
conIAlng TO their frietds that they would
tahe Jhe law into thtir own hands and
hld every witness, WHIP they claimed had
sworn falsely on behalf of the defendant
Numerous threats hid been made Dre-
viOUsly by George Getis, father of Peter
Ueus, tnaI ne would sStu KOthaiftis II he
were acquitted. Luckily for the latter he
was Immediately rea jrestad on a charpa
Of assault with deadly weapon with in
tent TO murder and taced in the county
Jail This probably sIved his life
Following the trial. friends OF the ac-
quilted man gathered at the Washing
ton rooms IN tovial celebration Of his good
fortune About O'Clock IN the evening
party Of the Gets action followers an
tered the room. SeIeral words vera
passed. and an opeui battle might have
I0loWed had not Wi5ar heads inteTfered.
The Getls faction lefi thu place. Helf an
hour later while yOutg R0umeliates was
unsuSpectingfy witnessing the pIavfus ~
his companions, chs Gets ,sreDf Ia
through the front dOjr, walked up within
three PAGES Of his vijim and fired point
only OIL Shot.
There was but one shot. Gets. brand
ishing his smoking Isvolver. rushed Far
the door, through which he had entered
and before any stepfcould be taken to
stop him, had gained the middle of tina
street. There he encountered Peter
koiovous, friend Il ROumeliates, who
gave chase, fOliOWini Gets into a blind
alley on the other side of the street At
this iuncture friends IOf the fleeing Getfs
stopped KOlOvous. threatening to XIII him
unless he desisted III the chase IN fine
confusion, Gets scaleEi a high bricI, wall
and escaped through the numerous alIev-
ways Of GreektOwn.
His victim was picked up from the
floor and carried TO Ehe VermilliOn drug
store across the streI from the scene OF
the shooting, where pr. Peter KassinikOs
and DR.. ira W. Waltz attended him. Dr.
). g. Paul arriving l. tine police patrol,
ordered the injured tlan removed to St
Marks hospital, where he died az
z O'Clock this mofning. The bullet.
from a .3S-calibre revflver, entered in the
small of the back onI the left side pene-
tEatlng the abdomen and ranging down
ward
A dozen policemen tnd detectives were
Immediately rushed l. the scene OF the
shooting IN anticipation of further trou-
bic. Their presence quelled all demon
STATIONS Temporarily, although the
friends Of Roumeliatts say they will not
be denied their revenge. A lynching may
result if Gets falls Ito their hands
The first trouble bei ween the Gets and
KOthiaftis families bi gan many years ago
in Greece. One man. lOf the Gets faction.
was killed. The milratiOn Of members
Of the two families Il America in no waY
lessened the fierce httred. A little over
a year ago, Petert Gets and John
Kothisftis met I'm a IsalOOn at Bingham
Canyon. Both passeI insulting remarks
and KOthiaftis puliedIhis gun. firing twice
without effect. FOf two months after
that the two men Wett armed, vOwing TO
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