The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-17
ADMITS ALL BUT
KILLING OF BOY
julius Szirmay, Alleged MUIR
derer, Is Subjected to Fur
ther Sweating.
STILL INSISTS THAT HE
DID NOT SLAY KARRICK
Officers Confident That They
Can Convict Him ON Evidence
Now at Hand.

Now at Hand.
Link by link the chain OF evidence is
being forged by which the authorities
hope TO send julius SZirmay TO the gall
lows for the murder OF Thomas r. kar-
rick at his home last Wednesday noon.
one last effort to wiring from the ac-
cused complete confession that inc
Killed the young man will be made Oh
Monday. but whether successful In this
or not tho case against SzIrmuy will be
sufficiently strong. those In charge say. To
warrant his being formally charged with
and prosecuted for The Staying of the
1i-year-old boy.
Throughout all OF Sunday afternoon. and
until after o'clock at night. the sweat
ing of Szirmay was kept up, with
the result that every admission possibie
has been obtained, with the single e%
GeP''Gh eel, On mat he & positively refuses to ad-
suited in the death OF young Karrich.
More Identification. of the most positive
type, and the unearthing of volumes or
evidence. was the outcome OF Sundays
investiga tions.
szirmsy's attempt to throw the blame
ior the killing on the shoulders of an
%hen he was confronted in the office OF
Warden Artlnir Pratt al tile state prison,
ny ny Sswss;Id IosGph ,Lukumski. friend OF his
ton furnished the sheriff Of the mys-
lerious Joe -Wfhen, brought face 10
face with Lukumslsi. .Szirmay. after
noncnt OF hesitation. declared he was
not the Joe 10 whom he referred, in.
sPlte OF the fact that Lukumski had been
IIerrctted out solely on the description
FURNISHED by the suspect
Positively Identified.
=, l,ukumski operates a chicken ranch ar
Spring Hollow, near the mouth of F,mi
sheriY s@,.TH Ss,n Sesanyon. Early Sunday afternoon
70 the ranch. having learned at the Kropf
none. ,1. where Szirray boardedl tire Local
.Ur,oi1, lion Oh The mans 9Jee's) residence Luz
closely 1nterrognted- EIe exprcssen Srce h
surprise when told that Szlrmay had v[r-5.
tuany accused him OF being implicated
ne had met Szirmay al the Kropf homie
t.1 ou. Two weeks ago, and that The onisps.
,.,l lime @ he had been m Szirmay's company
Szirinay was in Warden Pratt's office
when I.ukumski was brought III. II had
been hoped that. when confronted
murderer, the suspect might break down,
but this he failed to do. SzirniaS
simply said Lukumski was not the joe
he meant and after being detained about
an hour and half Lukumski WAS AL
sunday night three street railway
and positively identilled ssirmay H r'sUn as
having ridden on their cars on
Wednesday. w. J. Allen. 56s South Third
l,,a Mast street conductor on a Murray car,
olihcoity In identifying the suspect az
the man who, about $50 o'clock Wedncs-
Gay morning the morning of the murder
ot karrlck. boarded his car while IL was
coming to Salt Lake. Aliens attention
was attracted to the man because he car
l,ed rled hand- ,ra saw wrapped In newspaper
ci'y' received Il transfer and alighled
Seen Again Wednesday.
Conductor Il. A. johnson. SIS Cast
lenth South street. and Motormsn n
Z. Myers, l5g Jeremy street, who were
on the university run on Wednesday.
poth stated positively that Szirmay had
boarded their car about IL o'clock on
wednesday and had ridden on the front
vostibule as far as Thirteenth East aud
First South streets. where he alishtcd
direction of the Karrick home Both
Johnson and Myers saw Szrmay with
D saw, wrapped in newspaper, under
ms arm Their attention to the saw
was attracted by the fact that Szirmay.
When he paid his fare. had to put tile
saw between his kneos and reach into
his pocket for scent piece.
Allen stated SZirmay had boarded his
car uptown and had ridden as far south
as Fifteenth South street. where he
dliSllCU. All tnrce street car CmplONc,
were positive in their Identification The -,
statements of Conductor Johnson and Mo-
torman Myers are regarded as conclusive
that Szirmay went alone TO The Karricll
home and that his story OF having an
accompce Is false In its entirety
Further evidence came to light Sun
day that Szirmay had been upstairs in
the Karrck home. when the Gillette ra
zor blade with which he had tried to
cut the arteries in his wrist before drink.
ing choroforin was found To answer q
description OF several similar blades
taken from the third tloor of the karrick
home on the day OF the murder
Additional evidence that Szlrmay was
not in Provo on Thursday, and that he
a lndys gold watch there. is had in the
fact that at noon Thursday he ate lunch
con at lhe home of Mrs. +. d. linbau.
20 Q street. for whom he had done some
fact that in the afternoon he was seen
ON the streets of Mldvale by Marshal
Roy Stakes el Midvaie and Deputy
stead positively Identified Szirmay at the
prison sunday night as the man they
SAW IN Midvac on Thursday.
Spry Secs Suspect.
Governor William Spry accompanied
Sheriff Sharp to the State prison Sun
street car employees and the Midvaie
officers made their Identification, Tho
governor said his chief mission at the
prison WAS 10 confer Win warden Pratt,
but he manifested no small degree of in
tercst in the sweating OF Szirmay. and
intimatcd at it's conclusion that there
WAS no question OF the mans guilt
Szirmay confessed Sunday afternoon
that he had served three months in the
San Francisco city Jail for stealing somc
tools; he admitted stealing $3 from the
Kropf home where he boarded. and also
reiterated his statement OF Saturday that
his reason for leaving his home In Buda
pest was because he had stolen 5000
from his ather.
J~F' Duncgan. a real estate dealer.
living on State street. between Fifteenth
South and Sixteenth South streets, is the
man who first notified the Shcrlffs Of
flee of his suspicion that SZirmay might
br the murderer of karrick. When news
OF Szirmay's attempt at suicide reached
poncgan he went to the Nropf home and
there learned from Fred kropf that SIR