Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-17
Is,z!'IRMAY SAYS,
EXPECT TO HANG

I.....E 4: TO HANG J
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speaks up plainly and In a natural
voice. The sherilt's hat was placed on
ms ~, mead. low down on the face. Mr..
5eck examined every feature of the
mans face. When he had finished he
said: That looks like the man. His
ace ls SCARED and doesn't look like
me race saw in my. store. but no
LOOKS very like the man."
thcn Sheriff Sharp tilted the mans
nat back over his forehead. Now he
lQppRs, moro like him. said Mr.. Beck Il
tecpsnl1e the stiff curly hair sticking
over his forehead. And HIS forehead
mas the same white look"
70 sheriff Sharp previously Mr.. Beck
naa said that the mans forehead looked
.ike mere was not a drop of blood IN
tne skin. 1t was white and overtopped
Win a turf of stiff. curly hair.
deputy Sheriff Dick Eddington then
took Mr.. Beck to the county Jail where
5ssHtrmay's clothing has been kept under
iock and key After he was shown this
ne SAID that he was more positive than
eyer mat Sziimay Is tho man wanted.
inc man who was ut his store with tho
watch 10 pawn.
Another person called to the state
PRISON this morning was Charles Nell
son. who had seen a man of peculiar
appearance walking from Murray to
sMidvale on Wednesday afternoon. The
man asked Nelson when he could catch
n train to Provo Nelson told him soon
after pm. The man then walked to
me Q. s. L.. depot at Midvale and
ipoarded "a train for the south. At the
prison. however, Nelson said that SIR
nny was not this man, that the one he
snw at Midvalc had red hair.
TRAPPED BY WARDEN.
Warden Pratt, who declares Szlrmay
the most consummate liar he has ever
dealt with, caught the man in u
trap OF his own batting during his long
session with him. Szirmay told the
warden that after leaving the Karrick
home he walked north to South TEN
pie street and took Il car for town, ar
irving in town at 1870 p. m. Tho
warren asked him how he knew that
this was the hour and he told him that
aslhe reached First South he looked up
ut the clock on the corner. When the
warden told him that the clock on that
corner had not been running for
months. the'man turned queer pale
and then amended to say that it was
the clock III front of the hardware
store lower down Main street Tho
warden then said that inasmucl as
school was not dismissed until noon.
and that Szlrmay, according to his own
story had walked half n mile and then
ridden into town, that 1t was strange
he could make the trip so soon. Then
Szirmay said that he had been mis-
taken, that 1t was 12:20 p. m. when
he left the car in town.
Szirmay while undergoing question:
ing at the hands of the officers has
admitted every detail of the Karrick
murder save the actual killing Of the
boy. Notwithstanding this. tho net he
has woven about himself is concluded
to be sufficiently strong III circum-
stances to convict the man by the Of.
ficers. Szirmay, in telling his story,
drew a diagram Of the house. He says
that he and his partner went to the
rear, pried open a cellar door and Slip
ped down into the house through tho.
coal cellar. He remained in the base
ment packing up tools and clothing in
his grip. ready to make away with 1t.
His partner worked In the upper floors.
s;airmay was asked II his partner did
not come down stairs and put some
plunder. In his grip. Sairmay declared
that he did not and Insisted that what
ever was placed In the grip. he. him
self, had placed there. The warden
then asked Szirmay how he accounted
for the presence OF safety razor in
the grip. a razor that had been In the
second story of the house. Szirmay
was cornered and he knew 1t. He as
slmed the same air that has marked
his dcmeanor all through when he was
in tight place. He hung his head
and refused to answer any other ques-
tons put to him.
Szirmay had with him when arrested
pair Of trousers he was given by Mrs.
+. D. KimbalI, 20 o street. Thursday
noon These trousers bore the kimball
name and there Is little doubt about
this part OF the man's story.
Szirmay, In his confession to the rob-
berry, said that he came upstairs after
he had filled his grip and he he did SO
no saw a young, man with his coat
off. broad shouldered, In a white shirt
with black tie. This description tall
lies in detail with that of the murdered
school boy AS he saw the boy. he crept
down stairs again and left as he had
entered. but walking at swift pace to
the front of the house and then contin-
uing north to South Temple, where he
caught the townbound car. In leav-
ing the house he left his saw behind
him. and after leaving this he re-
GREETED 1t, as 1t had tormented him
ever since. He knew that it was a
clue that might catch him.
CRIMINAL RECORD.
The sheriff has learned little of SIR
mays criminal record. He lies so readi-
ly. 1t has been hard to connect his tales
Into tangible story. He said that his
father died insane afterNn sickness of
two years. IIe has admitted that when
he left home at IS years of age no
robbed his parents of 5000 Coming to
this country, he arrived in New York
and drifted to San Francisco and other
California towns. He has admitted.
after many other denlals. however, that
he served six months in the San Fran
cisco Jail for stealing tools. He has
been. in jail many other times for sim
liar larcenies. He begged from Dr.
yyherry here. saying that his children
were in need. 1t has developed that
there are no children and that he gave
his aims to the Kropfs. He stole money
from the Kropf family at Murray. He
says that he Is from Budapest and that
his father Is dead, but his mother Is
living and has since married. He has n
fish and game license dated June 8.
1910, which he procured from local
hardware store. which Is the only indi-
cation tho officers have Of the length
of time he has been here.
Those present yesterday Mt the state
prison when Szirmay was being ques-
toned were Sheriff Sharp, Warden
Pratt, Deputies Steele, Eddington and