Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-03-06 | Page 2 | Take Statement of Wounded Austrian

TAKE STATEMENT OF Mm AUSTRIAN Authorities Fear Man Shot by D. &.R. G. Watchman Will Die. Anticipating the death of 'Mat Zoraf, Austrian, who was shot by Special Night. Watchman Mace Cochrane of the Denver & Rio Grando for stealing coal from the railway company's cms at Bingham Juuction, Assistant County Attorney P. - T. Fnrnsworth, accompanied accompa-nied by an interpreter, George Bclich, 1 visited the Holy Cross hospital late Thursday afternoon and took Zoraf's ante-mortem statement, Zoraf's statement is similar to that ho made the night of the shooting, in which he said that as ho was walking awn' from a coal car with four or five lumps of coal in hiu arms, some one callcd( to him to halt. In his last statement state-ment he says that, tho call to halt had no more than been given when ho was fired at. the bullet striking him in tho back. Ho foil tn the ground, and as he fell a second shot passed over his head, ho says. He admits the theft of coal, in company with two countrymen, but .i : .. lt. 1... i: k.i .. uojuua uitu jn Liiuiuuu 11 pun i tiiiii r.u, tumbled the fuel to the ground and sacked it up lo carry away. The statcmout was obtained iu response re-sponse to a report from the hospital about 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon that Zoraf was sinking and likely lo die at any hour, ' Cochrane. Zoraf's assailant, furnished $500 bail Thursday, aud was released from the county jail, where he had been held from the time of tho shooting until Thursdn'. Tho bond wus furnished by a local surety company.