The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-25
GREEK MYSTER|OUSLY
MURDERED IN M|DVALE
Proprietor of Restaurant Dies
Without Being Able to
Say a Word.

month after he opened a restaura ut
In Midvale with money saved from his
wages as a laborer In Bingham. Peter
Kalepetsis. a Greek, 2S years of age. was
shot TO death in his place OF business, at
$50 O'Clock last night. by man whose
Identity Is shrouded in mystery.
Two Greeks. Nick Trebonis and Speros
Kafalopous. both about % years of age,
were found. apparently asleep, IN the
back room OF the restaurant. by Deputy
Sheriff Riley NJ Beckstead, shortly after
the shooting. and were held on suspi-
cior.
The restaurant where the killing oc-
CURED IS a few rods north OF Smelter
street, on the south side OF Main street.
Two shots were heard by Dan Kneze-
vich and Louis Diazllsis, Greek proprI
etors OF the Palace saloon. Just north Of
the restaurant. In the saloon also was
Paul Sherich bartender OF the Vienna
saloon at the time OF the killing Of Night
Marshal Frank ] CoIclough by bandits
who attempted to hold up the place on
the night Of August {. 1912
On hearing the shots the three men
rushed into the street and saw the res
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the doorway and fall on the sidewalk
They spread The alarm and the fatally
wounded man was carried back into his
restaurant
Deputy Sheriff Beckstead. standing on
4 corner block north, heard someone
shout that a man had been killed. He
hurried TO the restaurant and found the
Greek dying. DR. John Hosmer was
summoned. The murdered man was
found TO have been shot in the back. Just
above the right hip The bullet was ex-
tracted from under the skin on the abdo-
men, The victim died without being able
10 say word TO reveal the identity OF
his murderer
Marks Of the bullets that went WILD
were found on a chair and on the base
board al the front OF the restaurant. The
man with the gun Is thought to have
been standing toward the rear OF the
restaurant
Immediately upon receiving word OF the
killing, Sheriff Andrew Smith Jr.. went
to Midvale In an auto driven by Deputy
Sheriff Sanford Hedges He found
Deputy Beckstead and Marshal r. W.
Stokes ut the scene OF the shooting. and
the restaurant crowded with Greeks. who
all protested ignorance.
Sheriff Smith went to the jail. taking
with him James Kslepetss. brother OF
the murdered man. who works in a cof-
fee house al 553 West Second South
street. and questioned the two men held
on suspicion, Through the brother, who
had hurried TO Midvale upon hearing
that his brother had been killed, the
prisoners were questioned as TO what they
knew about the shooting or anything
previous TO It. They said that they had
gone 70 sleep where they were found
rolled in blankets In a rear. room OF the
restaurant. at about $50 o'clock and
that at the time the proprietor had gone
across the street 10 a grocery store,
They further said that three mon.
Greeks. had been In the place a short
time before, but had left ten minutes be-
fore the two men had retired 10 the rear
room. They declared ychemently that
they did not hear any shots.
The two men arrested are section
hands on the Bingham branch OF the
Denver 6: Rio Grande railroad and had
been working out OF MidVale since Sep
tember is, when they came there from
Bingham, where they knew the victim
Little headway was made toward
solving the mystery Of the murder last
night, Sheriff Smith ordered that the
TWO SUSPECTS be held until the affair
should be Investigated further The body
OF the murdered Greek was removed 10
the undertaking rooms OF the branch
office OF $. NJ. Taylor & Co. at Nfidvalc,
TO be prepared for burial.
The victim OF the murder had been In
the United States about four years Be-
sides the brother living In Salt Lake an
other brother Is living In Bingham and
another IN u Utah coal mining camp.
He was unmarried. So far as could be
learned last night. lie had no enemies
Sheriff Smith learned that a bucket OF
beer had been carried Into the restaurant
shortly before the shooting and il Is
thought that the killing might have been
the outcome OF drunken quarrel. The
bullet taken from the body was steel
jackctcd and appeared TO have been fired
from an automatic pistol No shells
were found. which was a source OF puZ-
element TO the investigating officers.