Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-06-17 | Page 10 | Ellas Proves Alibi and Goes Scot Free

ELLAS E PROVES S AliBI I INO NO ND GOES SCOT fREE P Pay y Check Shows He Was in Iowa at Time of the Bourazanis Murder After J proving an alibi Nick ick Elias Ellas who was arrested at Albert I. I Lea n. n Minn April 1 on suspicion of oC having having- murdered mur mUr- dered Mrs lr Sophia Bourazanis in Salt SaIL Lake November 30 30 1914 1911 was ordered released yesterday b by Justice Justlee L L. R R. Martineau Jr Jl on recommendation of Wilson lIson McCarty deputy deput county count ne ney Elias Ellas who ho has been held In the county Jail since April 13 will return to Albert lbert L Lea a in a few tew da days When hen the preliminary r hearing of Ellal ilas was resume resumed before Justice Mar Mar- yesterday afternoon Attorney Nicholas G. G Morgan all displayed a photograph photograph photo- photo graph raph of or a pa pay check cheek of or the Illinois Central railroad which Ella Ellas cashed at Pa Parkersburg ler burg burg- In la November 30 30 1911 1 the Ila day the murder was committed I Letters and anI post cards also showed that Elms Ellas was not III in the vicinity of ot Salt Lake Jale when the murder was commItte commit commIt- te ted It was also shown that Ellas Illas went ent from flom to Waterloo la Ia shortly afterward then went vent to West West Cheyenne then to Denver and Pueblo and stopped at a West cst Second South rooming house In Salt Lake January Januar 2 I that he be went to McGill Nev ev where his brother was killed b by a train that he ha attended the funeral of his brother broth broth- er Cl er and subsequently went to Albert Lea Iea to work on 1 a section for the Illinois Illi nol nois Central When hen arrested he was suspected of being sick Nick Ellas Elms said in court yesterday his right name was Nick but hut that h he changed han his name while working tor 01 a railroad at San Francisco on ad adIce advice advice ad- ad vice Ice of railroad officials because his name conflicted with the name of or an an- other I I I j i I I I I I