Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-28 | Page 5 | Laus Witness Describes Fight

LAUS WITNESS 1SCIES FIGHT George A. Winney Tells of Watching Struggle at Scene of Murder. As a witness for the state, in an endeavor en-deavor to fix the time Marko Laus was killed in the mouth of Parley's canyon, on September 3, George A. Winney was i called as a witness yesterday afternoon I in the preliminary hearing before City Judge Henry C. Lund of Steve Maslich ! and Nick Oblizalo, charged with the mur-1 mur-1 der. Mr. Winney testified that he was passing pass-ing the place of the murder'at 3 oclock on the afternoon of Sunday, August 3, and that he saw three men, two of them forcing one in the middle to walk with them. He said he saw the man in the middle jerk away from the smaller man on his left and then, saw the man on the right strike the man' in the middle in the face. The man on the left, the witness testified, regained his hold upon the man in the middle and the three dropped out of sight over a bank. Mr. Winney fixed the time through the fact that he was traveling up Parley's canybn by automobile and that his car had reached a point in the canyon about half an hour's drive from the place of the killing when it met the Park City train at 3:32. Judd Snyder and H. E. Marshall, "trusties"' "trus-ties"' at the state prison, testified of finding find-ing the body at 5:30 o'clock In the afternoon after-noon near the state prison. Frank Vitch testified to having seen Oblizalo and Laus a soft drink parlor on West Second South street and of having heard Oblizalo trying try-ing to dissuade Laus from going immediately immedi-ately to work In Eureka.