The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-26
JURORS SAY COND|E
WAS NOT A SUICIDE
Declare That Fatal Gunshot
Was Fired by Some
Other Person.
THREE ARE. DETAINED
Elias Miller and Two Women
Are Held Pending a
Further Inquiry.
THREE ARE DETAINED

Leonard Condic, who was found dead
Sunday morning in the home of Mario
and Lille Green, 3427 Seventh East
street, did not meet death from a self
inflicted wound, but from gunshot
wound inflicted by some person un-
known to the coroncr's jury, according
to the verdict returned yesterday. The
! inquest, which was ordered by the
county attorney, was held before Act"
| ing Coroner J. II. Walton Of the Third
precinct of Salt Lake county.
| Immediately after the jury had ro,,
turned its verdict the Green girls and
Elias Miller, divorced husband of Marie
Green, and who is alleged to have
ouarreled with Condie Saturday night,
were rcmanded to the custody OF the
sheriff. Under the surveillance OF
Deputy Sheriff Jack Smith, Miller and
the Green girls were taken to the Office
Of the county attorney, where they
were placed under further examina-
| ton by County Attorney !. Z. Wiley
and his assistant, f. II. Cnllister.
Neither Mr.. Wiley nor Mr.. Callister
were able to obtain furthcr Facts or
clews concerning Condie s death IN
their examination of Miller and the
Green girls.
Three Are Detained.
The three will be detained by the
sheriff pending the securing. OF further
| evidence in the case, or until 1T can be
proved without doubt that neither
Miller nor the Green girls were CON
nected with Condie's death. II addi-
tional evidence is procured today by
the county attorneys office Miller and
the Green girls Will be put throuGh an
other examination.
The coroner IS jury yesterday was
com posed of Louis w. Harris, foreman;
Ray Walton and William NJ. Gerard.
After the evidence had been heard the
Jury took slightly moro than thirty
minutes TO return its verdict. Those
who testified yesterday were Marie
Green, Elias Miller, DR.. c.. L. Shields,
Elmo Morgan. William Cook, Easton
Young, George Wcbber and L. NJ.
Holder.
The striking feature in the testimony
Yesterday was the contradictory testl-
mony Of Marie Green and the denial
of her conversation with Condie, Mil
Ter and her sister while returning on
the Wandamere car from Salt Lake
Saturday night. William Cook and
Easton Young, passengers on tho same
car, testified that Marie Green had
auarreled with Miller and Copdie. They
said they heard Miller ask Condie to
fight it out when the end Of the line
had been reached. Miller is alleged to
have said he would turn Condie over
to the police for alleged white slavery.
Condie replied with an oath, and at
the end of tho line, according to the
he was alleged to have drawn a gun
on Miller.
Tells of Quarrels.
According TO tho testimony of Marie
Green, she and her sister and Miller
and Condie had left the Wandamere
car at the end of the line and had
quarreled while walking to their home,
All four went into the house, where
Mrs. Green, mother of the girls, lives.
Some wine was drunk, after which, the
girl testified, Miller left the house TO
60 to tho home of Elmo Morgan to pass
the night. After Miller had gone, she
| said, Condie drew her into the back
| room, where he had been staying for
several days, and that he lay down on
a bed and went to sleep in such a po-
| sitioD that if she went out of the room
by the door she feared she would
| left the room through & rear window,
using a chair taken from the room to
| descend to the ground. She said Mil
| ler left the house before clock Sun
day morning. After leaving the house,
Marie testified, she heard a shot, and
then left with her sister Lille for the
| home of George w. Barrows. Barrows
related how he had been awakened by
| the Green sisters, and how he had ac-
| companied them back to their house
and discovered the body lying on the
| bed, with a revolver in one hand.
Chair Is a Factor.
The question as TO whether or not n
certain chair stood under the window
| whore Marie Green said she left the
| room may have an important bearing
on the future Of the case. 1t was inti-
mated that a person standing on tho
window from the outside and shot
Condie while he slept. Miller testified
that he had quarreled with Condie on
| the car and later at the house. He
| said he left the Green home shortly
after he had arrived there, and that he
| went to the home of Elmo Morgan to
pass the night. Miller's testimony was
eorroborated by. Morgan, who said Mil
| Ter came TO his house and slept there.
DR.. Shields, who conducted q post
mortem over the body on Tuesday, de-
scribed the bullet wound in the side of
Coudie's head, and said that he be.
lieved the gun had been a considerable
distance from Condie when he was shot,
| He could not say whether II had been
more than an arm s length. Victoria
Barrows, George Webber and L. NJ.
Holder, who testified, were neighbors
who were attracted to the house by the
noise of the shooting. Their testimony
was not regarded as particularly i'm
portant.