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Show S death-bed wedding celebrated I ; AS SEQUAL TO RELIGIOUS PEUD A death-bed wedding was celebrated at the Keogh-IJammond hospital Thursday afternoon. Upon his dying bed Pete Gal-lacs, Gal-lacs, a member of the Roman Catholic faction fac-tion of the Austrians engaged lu a deadly religious warfare at Bingham and Garfield, Gar-field, who was shot from ambush by I Greek Catholics at Bingham about 3 o'clock last Sunday morning, was married mar-ried to Miss Poall Duklch, his sweet-faced Austrian sweetheart of boyhod days, who followed" him to America four years ago to be near and share his fortunes and misfortunes with him. The culmination of their courtship was far from tho romantic ro-mantic dreams of her girlhood days when, barefooted, sho roamed the streets of tho small town of Gosplch In the little province pro-vince of Croatia In far-away Austria hand in hand with hor schoolboy lover. When It was announced by the attending attend-ing physician Sunday morning that both of Gallacrs legs were shattered by the assassins'" bullets and that there whs little lit-tle chance of his recovery. Miss Paoll became be-came hysterical from grief, and when ho was brought to Salt Lako City and transferred trans-ferred to the honpllal she followed him. weeping as If her heart was broken. On account of tho delay In transferring her lover to the hospital mortification set In and Thursday morning It was announced that there wns no hope for his recovery. The wedding was decided upon Immediately Imme-diately and Justice Tanner was called In to unite the two lovers. Contrary to the wishes of the dying man and bride, tho mystic Austrian wodding eeromonv had to be abandoned and tho wedding" wan solemnized In the American ccremonv, Xlck Jlutlcovlch. u leader of the Roma'n Catholic faction of tho Austrian colonv, acting as Interpreter. Tho wedding ceremony was performed at 1 o'clock Thursdny afternoon. Gnllacz then wns sinking rapidly and was too feeble to make his replies to the formal questions of Justice Tanner scarcely audible audi-ble and had to denote his assent by weak nods of the head Ten hours afterward he passed away. His bride of a few hours was not present at his death, having hav-ing sought refuge with Austrian friends here after spending a fow hours with her dying husband Immediately following the ceremony. As sho has no relatives In this country she Is at a loss'as to what to do, but It Is likely that sho will remain re-main bore with new-found friends. Gal-lacz's Gal-lacz's body probably will go to O'DonnelPs undertaking parlors . this morning to ho prepared for burial. Gallacz was 20 years old and had been In this country live years. Ills pretty widow Is only 21. She has been hero four yenrp. Steve Maorovlch, a momber of the Roman Ro-man Catholic faction, will be taken to Bingham this morning and arraigned on tho charge of murdering Mlko Popovlch, a Greek Catholic, Friday afternoon, but It Is likely that the hearing will bo venucd to Justice Holm's colirt at Murray. At least tho defense will ask for a change of venue on tho grounds of bias and prejudice pre-judice against Maorovlch nt Bingham. Sorcn X. Chrlstenson has beon retained to j defend tho alleged murderer. Tho death of Gallacz lays bin slayer liable to a charge of first-degree murder, ; but there Is no clow to the murderer, al- though the Sheriff's office has been work-i work-i lng on the case for five dnys. j Maerovlch's vvlfo Thursday loft her ! husband, who Is confined In tho county Jail, long enough to go to Bingham to arrange to dispose of their small property j there, valued at 1000. to obtain money I with which to defend him. |
