Show TRAGEDY AT EARLY MASS priest killed by anarchist in denver assassin says he was led to commit deed ly by grudge against priests in general denver feb 23 father leo heinrichs was shot and killed instantly while administering the sacrament at early mass in st Eliaz beths catholic chuich today with d I 1 countenance expressing the contrition and humility of of a humble son of the church giuseppe alio the assassin knelt at the alter rail between two women pressed the muzzle of a 44 calibre revolver against the priests body and shot the man of god through the heart father leo fell prone in front of the alter gasping my mv god my god and expired without uttering another word ord with a fiendish yell ell the a sprang into the aisle brandishing his mok bokina inix weapon and made for the door for a moment the hundred or more people in the house of orchid vor shio were dazed the NN women omen became hysterical and some of them fainted several men rushed to the aid of the stricken priest and othera started in pursuit of the fleeing murderer among the latter was E J quigley conductor on the D R G railroad he leaped I 1 into the aisle and despite oil fourth page TRAGEDY AT EARLY MASS continued from farst pice the smoking revolver sprang at the assassin in trying to abid aad him bm the murderer slipped and fell striking his face on the threshold and cutting a deeo deed lah cash in nl nis lip ile he recovered his footing in a d moment and ran through the door patrolman daniel ceonin alio ho was vas in the church at the time ran after thee fleeing italian allo alio attempted to shoot him but vias as foiled and overpowered onh after a ati gle ele in w h sen several eral me mei I 1 had come to the assi assistance tance of the officer ahe 1 he murderer was immediate 3 removed to the pity eity jail and NN was as guarded daa da and r right by a reser resene e force of patrolmen pitr olmen owina to threats of summary justice made by tha th card d w which had gathered in front of the church alio admitted that the priest whom he had killed was t i stranger to him arid and made the following st bement 1 I just oer there because I 1 had a grudge against all knets in general I 1 went nent to the communion rail because I 1 could get a better shot I 1 left three months ago went first to central america and then came to denier demer I 1 am an and am proud of it 1 I shoot him and my only onla regret is th tint thit it 1 I could not shout shoot the whole bunch of priests in the church dener feb 20 alio aho the anarchist is now confined in the jail at colorado springs and it is likely that he will be brought back to denver before the end of the week and ar reigned on a charge of murder in the first bergee alio aho sas that he be was as mo moved ed to kill the st by the ringing of ti tie te e church bells which rem nd ed him of his home in sicily which he be says was wrested from him by the church rather father eusebius Euseb iua senior assistant pastor of st elizabeths church announced today that the body of father leo will he forwarded to paterson N J for interment sedalia mo feb 22 an attempt was made last night to denil an eastbound pasq passenger enger train on the missouri pacific rail railroad rod evidently for the purpose of robbery by removing a rill at Otto mlle ille 20 miles cast of here the bid place in the track vias ft as struck by an extra height train which was vas wrecked the engineer fireman and bri kerrian being injured ahe wieck cis hid built a fire between the tracks to bring the passenger gei to a stan standstill dAill but the freight crew failed to notice the signal until it was to late to stop salt lake cit feb 24 walter J beltle national bink bank examiner for this district has completed an in spee spec tion of the books of the utah national bank and finds that thy are in good condition tion his detailed leport is now MV being forwarded to wash ington pre president ident mccornick stated that another force of accountants is at on the books in the hope of finding some clue lint baitx v ill lead to the at apprehension of the person who took the from the banks reserve ault early in january |