The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-05
SEARCHING FOR
THE MURDERER
Ogden Worked Up to Fever of
Excitement Over Killing
of John ContoS.

Ali day yesterday. beginning at an early
hour in the morning. every available man
from the sheriffs office and every man
who could be spared from the police force
were out securing the nils east of the
city in search Of Nick NacOs, the muir
derer Of John ContOs. In addition to the
regular officers a large number of spe-
cial deputies were sworn in and private
citizens in many cases volunteered 70 as
sist in the man hunt. Officers IN towns
on all sides were put on their guard and
furnished with a complete description of
the fugitive Hundreds of rumOrs were
run down only to result in nothing.
Made for the Hills.
The consensus Of opinion is that the
man made for the hills to the east of the
city In an effort to get over into Morgan
county and take his chances for getting
afternoon was that Vacos had been seen
i'm the foothills in the neighbOrhood of the
old Methodist university. Officers Joe
CritchlOw and Irving Emmett. who were
ward Ogden. while Captain Browning and
Officers Charles PincOck and Robert
Payne went out from the city to work in
the direction of Uintah. It was thought
that by this plan the man must be caught
IF indeed he was in that direction. Short
~ after this the report came to the police
station that VacOs was seen on Thirty
third street in the city working toward
the railroad yards.
The whole community was in a fever
of excitement throughout the day more
especially as It was known that VacOs
was a desperate man. Greeks who seem
to be posted on the mans record assert
that he killed a man in Greece and anoth-
er some place in the east before coming
to Ogden. One report has it that he
served time in Wisconsin for killing a
man. If the man is not caught by morn
ing a reward will be offered by the state
for mis- capture. Sheriff Barlow =. Will
son communicated with Acting Governor
Charles 5. Tingey on this subject yester-
GAY Had not the day been Sunday re-
ward would have been offered at once.
As II was there was a question as to the
legality of a reward offered on Sunday.
The search will be kept up throughout the
night. as it is now considered reasonably
certain that Vacos did not get out Of
town on a train.
May Get Fortune.
Elena AIaItezes. the only known relative
or John COntOs in the United States. is
domestic in the home of Lieutenant VIII
liam z. Kneass. assistant Superintendent
of the State Industrial school. Miss Nal
tezes is a girl of Il years and has been
employed In the kenass home for the
past year and a half. She is a niece of
the man murdered Saturday night Her
father was killed in an explosion and her
mother is still in Greece. She has been
in this country bat a few years, and is
now likely to come in for good share of
her UuCle'S fortune. VariOusly estimated
a from 5000 to $4,000. COntOs was q
good business man. He had the faculty
Of making and saving money. He never
married and for that reason Miss Maltezes
is certain to inherit good share of the
fortune.
All through the twenty-four hours since
he killed COntOs the murderer seems to
have been playing hide and seek with the
officers. Three times they had him def
nitely located and at one time complete
iy surrounded Yet al midnight he was
still al large.
At i'm the morning Vacos was in his
room in the Fashion TOOmlng house on
TWenty-fifth street. There he held up
Clarence J. Naisbitt and robbed him Of
g The alarm was given. and Vance
MCLlman. Marclow and CrOny surround
ed the place. Vance stood on guard in
front and MOhlman III the rear, whllF
MaTClOW and CrOny entered TO make the
arrest While the two OFFICERS inside
were searching rooms. VacOs ran down
the front stairs. The night clerk, seeing
him. ran to the rear door and called 70
Officer MOhlman to step through the
Chile pariOr below TO help Vance get the
man. In the meantime the Greek dis
covered Vance in front. ran back up
stairs and down the hall 70 the rear es-
Gaping down the rear stairway.
At O'Clock ne visited the ogden cany on
sanitarium and bought a sandwich.
Alarm was sent from this place and orfi-
GERS rushed there on horses. put before
they arrived NaCOs was gone. IN the al
ternOOn he was located IN the southwest
ern mart of the CITY within a block of Of
ficer Lanes home. Again the hue and
crv was raised and officers gathered IN
from all sides. but once again the fugitive
slipped through the lines ana got away
AT midnight a large force of officers
searched the railroad yards and the Jun
giles" as il is taken to be fact that
the man is hiding in that neighborhood-
II is known that he has very htlle mon
ev and II is also known that he is a Co
caine fiend It is thought that he IL Try
ing to get into communication with a re-
male aCcomplice in the city