Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-24
GUN TOTER SCORES
ONE DEAD, ONE HURT
Still Another Shooting Scrape;
This Time in Greek
Town.
QUARREL OVER FIVE CENTS
r.. y. Stathakos, Brother of Head of
Local Colony, Kills u Man In
self Defense.

one man. Louis Poulos, Greek. Is
dead from bullet wound another.
Gust Meritsls lies wounded In ST.
Marks hospital T.. =. stathakos.
brother Of y r. Stathakos the dom
inant figure in the Greek colony, IL CON
fined in the city Jail with charge Ok
murder against him, and Louis Kop-
sakos. friend Of stathakos, Is held
as an accessory 10 the murder-all the
result of a quarrel that began TUESDAY
forenoon over scent piece bet IN q
gambling game.
The shooting. which Stathakos asserts
was done in self-dSfcnsc after he had
taken the part OF conclliator. oc.
CURED about Z o'clock last night al
front Of the Athens coffee housa. $50
west Second South street Under ms
fire from the revolver Of StathakOs,
Poulos fell with bullet that ploughe1
through his neck into the spinai column
and which caused his death this morn
ing, and Gust Meritsas. a companion
of Poulos, received "A bullet IN MS an
domen. Chris Mertsas, VINO was alsC
with Poulos, escaped bullet fired a.
him.
Today, from behind the bars in hi
cell, Peter StathakOs. after he was tod
that Poulos had died from his Dullet
wound, talked freely OF the incident o.
the shooting, and gave his version o,
the AFFAIR.
sTATHABos TALKS.
I'm sorry, he said. but | had to
do il to protect myself / am sorry 70
say that in our little community, you
call It Greektown, we have a lot Of bad
people, they're bad because they live
OF nN onn NH pottIug n
Meritsas are OF that class, There was
a row yesterday and I attempted To
straighten the thing out but last night
they came at me three to one and
attacked me. had TO shoot to save
myself
yesterday morning Paul Poulakoa
and Louis Poulos were playing cards
and Paul came TO me afterwards and
said that they had had a fight over 8
cents | saw them all together after
wards and | said, trying 10 bring them
together and make them friends; why
do you fellows hght? You should b.
good friends.
"Poulos answered back to me What
you got to do with our business?'
81 am your friend and want you peo-
pie 20 he friends | said. and then he
called me namts that were vile.
"Then Polos pulled out a revolver and
he tried to hit me first and then fred
shot at me. | pulled my revolver
IN self-defense and shot at him. As I
fred he dropped his revolver and one
OF the men with him picked- It up and
ran away with IL. | shot at another
man there.
II am sorry for the whole thing but
there are many men who saw and Will
say that had to do II. He shot first.
and there was no row / was only
trying TO make friends between those
who had qusrreled'
PLAYING CASINO.
According TO the evidence gathered
by the police the two Greks. Poulekos
and Poulos. had been playing the favor
its card game among the Greeks OF
casino yesterday morning and alterca-
ton arose over Ave cent bet There
WIS a wordy encounter that came near
20 q hght.
After PoulalSos had gone 10 stathaFos
and told him OF the row
Then Stathakos In an effort 10
bring about amlcablo settlement OF the
difficulty. had talked with Poulos and
his companions. the two Mcritsas, and
this talk ended IN the shooting
The shooting caused n sensation ln
Grcektown When the first shot was
fired officer Bevnon rushed up and
captured Stathakos. who stood stii iu
the street with his arms outstrotched
The patrol arrived quickly I'm answer
"a the call and the wounded mon. with
the captves were taken "a the station
Poulos and Meritsas were later re-
moved from tho emergency hospital to
St Marks hospital where Poulos died
this morning from his wound