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Show George Demelcr, Greek Inter-.. ':!'H preter, Killed by Countryman; at Winter Quarters. jl WAS A GRADUATE OF UNIVERSITY OP ATHENS Murderer Is Known and Posse ' lH Is After Hi in"; Life Had . Been Threatened. i jB Special to The Tribune. ), jf WINTER QUARTERS, June 16. ,i jH George Demctrakopoulo?, known as , j Georgo Demeter, the Gn?ck interpreter, 'li'l at. the Winter Quarters mine, owned - by the Utah Fuel company, -was shot and instantly killed this morning about u 0:30 by one of his countrymen, ryesum- 1L ably Steve Flemetis, formerly an cm- ij ployco at this mine, who quit some jjH time ago. Vl Bad blood has existed for some time vMll between tho two men and some days. ? tl ago Demeter had Fleinctis arrested for ( jH threatening his life. Flemetis was fined IH and cautioned by the justice and turned jH It il That this feeling was "growing more f vH bitter as time progressed was evidenced ir'-jH by the terrible climax today. The sup- position is that Flemetis, a'ftcr getting lifH permission from tho landlady, walked X lH upstairs to Demcter's room; in the 1 fH French boarding house, where ho was a IH engaged in copying some manuscript' i H on his typewriter, and immediately re- t , newed their quarrel. iH Always Went Armed. Demeter had always gone armed, and J : in this instance had a hunting knife ,1 ' in its sheath on his left-hand sideband a revolver, it is supposed, on his right. i H The supposition is that Flemetis .was 1 iH standing back of Demeter, ostensibly to i 'H read the notes, but in reality for tho ' , !H purpose of wre'aking vengeance on his. ft sworn enemy. Demeter evidently was in the act of looking at tho notes with his head down when Flemetis fired tho lf shot that resulted iu his instant death. ' ' 'H Demeter had not even time to tin- sheath the knife before him nor time ;H to grasp the revolver before he expired. f The bullet was fired fram a 32 auto- . J matic Colt's and entered at tho base of ' the brain a little lo the left and about f ; on a level with the ear lobe. It -pene- : trated the brain, struck and shattered rl the skull over the left eye, but failed liVI to penetrate, and fell back ito' the brain n H matter, a flattened little mass of lead. - V Several posses aro out on the mur- "i'l dercr's trail and all tho main line sta- i! Hons have boon notified of iho murder : lM and have been given descriptions of tho '' i'l fugitive, so his capture may bo looked J M for at almost auy time. 1 ; Pive Men Arrested. i t Five men supposed to have been in .H a conspiracy with Flemetis lo cauaa j Demeter 's death are under arrest. The dead man was a graduate of the Jul University of Athens, and was highly , educated. Alter coming to this coun- : j try he edited a Greek paper in Chicago, -j v.H and later went to Stilt Lako Cit' with . l the avowed purpose of starting a Greek jM '1 newspaper there. This plan miscarried, y and ho enterod tho employ of the Utah A Ll Fuel company as interpreter. J fl Recently Deinolcr's life ' had been ;( J threatened, and he had made all hia V L arrangements to go to Salt Lake City. r 'H Beforo he could do so. however, iho as- f Vl sassin's bullet laid him low. ILo was ' 'H about thirty-three years old. l jH N- P. Stathakos. vico-president of JM Greek colony in Salt Lako Ci I3-, know r"H Demeter well and sueaks of him iu tho li. highest terms. Mr. Stathakos says U Demeter eamo to this city about a year 1 IH ago with tho hope of starting a Greek .H newspaper. He had been editor of U11 , -H Chicago Greek Star for three years and J was a nowspaper man of ability and i .iudgment. Uo had also received a de- y , gree us philologist in tho University of lYI Athens. His plans failed, however, and ,U ho accepted work as an interpreter. j Mr. Stathakos says Demeter was im- J nicnselv popular among his couutr3-men, , ! bv whom his death is keenly regretted. . J j |
