Show SI s. SL LI l. MURDERER FOUND IN ITALY AFTER 15 YEARS I Officer Locates Killer of Fellow Fellow Fel Eel low Patrolman Seeks to Return Slayer When his pal and fellow officer Patrolman Thomas F. F Griffith was shot down and killed more than fifteen fifteen fie teen years ago ngo Patrolman George Phillips made a solemn vow that the murderer would pay his debt to so so- ciet In the years that have rolled by byman man many people have forgotten the crime but not Patrolmen Patrolman n Ph Phillips The veteran officer of or the Salt Lake police department Thursday related a saga of relentless searching that has lasted more than a decade decade but but and Patrolman Phillips smiled a grim crim smile when he announced it the murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer has been found in far away It Italy a I LIKE DETECTIVE STORY The stor story might easily have been torn from the pages of a novel b by an any popular detective story author but now finis has been wr written to the thelast thelast thelast last chapter chanter and if Patrolman Phillips Phillips Phil lips has has his has his way the slayer will be brought back to face justice in Salt Lake Patrolman GriC Griffith ith was walking his I beat seat near Second South and Fourth West streets on June 25 1913 when he was called upon to arrest John Anselmo who police records show had ind been involved in a kni knifing ing af af- af fra- fra fray The man was vas arrested but while Patrolman Griffith was waiting wailing with his lis prisoner for the patrol wagon to arrive Anselmo drew a gun shot and killed the officer and fled After a manhunt that reached throughout the west Anselmo was arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested convicted of oC first degree murder murder murder mur mur- der and sentenced to face a firing squad His case was appealed to the supreme court however and the accused accused accused ac ac- ac- ac slayer was granted a new trial He was again convicted and sentenced sen sen- to serve a life term in the thc state penitentiary ESCAPES FROM PEN rES' But his incarceration was brief Two years later in 1915 Anselmo escaped es cs from prison Patrolman Philips Phillips Phillips Phil Phil- lips joined the search for the fugitive which reached ground around the globe but always clues proved foundationless The officer was undaunted how how- ever over and followed every clue elue silently through the years Finally Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day his search seat was rewarded for he said aid he has been Informed reliably that hat Anselmo is n now w serving a five five- year ear term for robbery in a prison near Turin Ital Italy Police o officials came carne to Patrolman Phillips Phillips' assistance and through nd through an nn international identification bureau the he identity of the mar man believed to be Anselmo is being checked by means of fingerprints State prison officials said if the reports are substantiated plans will wille be e made to effect Anselmo's extradition tion ion after he has hns completed serving his lis sentence for robber robbery arid and he will be je returned to Salt Lake to finish his life term 1 |