Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-18 | Page 3 | Girl is Murdered; Body Laid on Grave

GIRL IS MURDERED; BODY LAID 01 GRAVE ! ' I AURORA. 111.. Feb. 17. Anthony Petnis. charged with dubbin? to death 20-vcar-oId Theresa Hollander, his former sweetheart, repeated his declarations of innocenco tonight. Miss Hollander was found InHt nlpht on a grave In fcl Nicholas Nich-olas cemelory after her aped parents had found footprints in thc snow from a street corner near tluilr home lo the lonely burial ground. Potras eved with upprehcnslon a crowd of men and women who withered around I tho Jail tonight striving for a chance to look at the prisoner. Hearing his outcries, out-cries, the police drove his tormentors away. ' ... The coroner's jury adjourned until Thursday morning, after going lo the cemetery to look among thu tombstones for evidence of the crime. A gold watch found near tho body tonight was paid to havo belonged to MIsh HnIIandcr. Petras udmlttcd having taken the same street car on which -Miss Hollander started to return to her homo from a lodgo meeting. Confronted by a nogro. Walter Hickman, who said that he saw Potras get off thc car a block beyond where Miss Hollander left It and run back to where she got off, Petras charged thc negro with telling an untruth to create cre-ate a sensation. Pctrns also suggested that three negroes ne-groes who went to tho penitentiary for the purpose, of robbing him may have conspired with Hickman to testify against him. He also suggested that Incendiaries suspected of having set fire to a houso two blocks from the cemetery had run upon .Miss Hollander in their flight and hud killed her. A thcorv of thc police that Potras wanted Miss Hollander married to a mail of his choice, In order to see her unhappily un-happily married, hu characterized as foolishness. fool-ishness. "I dldn t care who she married, he said, "f didn't care If she never got married, 1 never cared a great deal for her and I was happily married last Sep- is lembcr." a Thc police attach much significance lo K a remark Petnis is reputed to have made RI to Coioner Norton. "It looks bad for ji yon, Tony." said .Norton. "Nobody saw it," Pctrae is said to have replied. jjv