| Show HE ARRESTS DUE WE IN KOROUS CAS OJ to 4 I SOLUTION OF MYSTERY NEARS AS DETECTIVES r- r SEEK GRIME MOTIVE Police Inquiry Leads to Conclusion Death of Nurse Was Planned in Advance and Murder Carried Out With f 1 Fiendish Cunning j j F FURT ER arrests in the case ease of Frances Korous nurse who was w v f I 1 mu murdered ered recently and her body thrown into Liberty park park- park lake lake where it was found last Sat Saturday will be made Inti Intimations thata that a a at possible motive for the crime had been discovered by the police were made today by Chief Chie of Detectives Riley M M. Beckstead That Miss Korous met her death through premeditated d murder is now the theory strongly adopted by the tile police They believe that every detail of the crime was planned in in advance that the man manne manned 1 r in which she was ki killed led the placing of the body in the thu lake the rat about her neck the hour of the tho ni night ht and an I d detail tai which has 1 s be been n so baffling in inthe in inthe the c case se was mapped mapped out with fieric fiendish Is cunning Chief Chiet Beckst Beckstead ad ad Detective Carl Carstensen Chief Deputy W. W B. B iuie of tJ the sheriffs s e and other offiC officers rs went to the home hom of Freeman r. r 92 E East Easi st S Uth Temple street this thiO morning for tor the purpose of interviewing g the sister of ol the dead nurse Rose Korous The sister has been confined to her bedfor bed bedfor bedfor for the past two days and is overcome overe over over- e come cOmO m by grief at at her sisters sister's death and the circumstances surrounding the case caSL SISTER SAYS MURDER I 1 am positive that my sister did not commit suicide said Miss Aliss Korous tod today y Even in the midst of the horrors we saw in war work she was always cheerful l and religious We AVe once discussed the theory of or suicide Frances stated emphatically that shedid she shedid shedid did not believe one had a right light to take her own life Hie under any circum circum- stances I know my sister was murdered The Tha disclosure that Frances Korous held held property valued at on South State Stat street and had bad invested in land in California and a placer claim in in Dry canyon was made last night The property on South State street consists of half a lot valued at and improvements valued at 1300 J It was purchased in January 1915 from Frank Franl Erath rath of the Superior Baking company and three persons holding holding- mortgages Investigation disclosed disclosed dis dis- dis- dis closed that both Frances rances Korous and her sister had been economical and carefully Invested their savings saving MAKING PROGRESS S. S We believe we are making good progress with the case said Chief Beckstead today The Thc greatest st difficulty difficulty dif dif- so far has been to establish a motive for murder Once this is clearly outlined th the theory of or suicide can be definitely abandoned and the guilt can be fixed with ease It U is absolutely necessary that such cases be developed with the greatest test caution It appears now as asIf asif asif If the murder was premeditated d every detail for the purpose of confusing confusing con con- fusing the authorities and that it was carried out with precision J NEW EVID EVIDENCE NCE FO FOUND ND Chief Beckst Beckstead ad said the nature of the new evidence developed eloped during the last twenty hours was such that it must be kept secret until it had been completed and found to either permanently fix the guilt of the murderer murderer mur mur- derer or murderers or had been proved useless The police now believe that a considerable considerable con eon I interval elapsed between the hour Miss Korous dined at the home of her half halt Y E. E Korous and I the tho time of the murder They base this belief on the statement statement state state- I x ment ent of or Herman Harms state chemist chemist chem chem- 1st that no food rood was found round in the stomach Only a red fluid was ivas dis dis- dis- dis covered According to physicians had the nurse been killed shortly after she left the residence of ot Y l 13 B. Koro Korous s stood food tood would still have hac remained in the stomach I HELD PRISONER I I I The theory that Miss Korous was held a prisoner and was denied deni or refused food has bas been advanced ad d. d That she was murdered when the appointed time cane came and accordIng to prepared d plans is is' held to be highly proba probable le leby by the police Mrs Irl Yarra E. E Korous wife of the halt half brother was taken to police pollee headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters late yesterday afternoon following fol id- lowing the arrest and detention of fOl 1 her husband She Sho was overcome o when she was told that her husband had hadI h been en cn imprisoned 1 She was questioned I cl closely selY in connection with the case I Tho The police say there were wets some soma slight I dl discrepancies s in in the accounts of the j I s r I n 0 J I husband and wife regarding the Id last t time the girl was at the residence and that these are being investigated d. d I DENIES GUILT is t in hc city He ne asserted last t he did tId Ii not his sister any any money Rd gave the name of a local physician for tor whom the girl worked for a long longtime This doctor has been in California for tor several months The police police- communicated communicated floated with the doctor by wire but the physician had not heard from Miss Korous nor seen her since leaving Salt take Lake ake City Korous seemed anxious ious Ions to tell the detectives everything g ghe I he knew about the past life of his half hal sister He informed the police that the p paternal pa paternal pa- pa I ternat grandfather of himself and his half alt sister committed suicide Ho He said sale that as he remembered the story the tho theold theold old man was found hanging to a tr tree tre e after he had lost all aU his money in in an investment Korous Is regarded as asan s 8 san an excellent workman at the laundry where he lie has been employed His IUs salary is a a. month IDENTIFY CLOTH Examination by an expert of at atthe the tho cloth found tied about the tho womans woman's neck when the body was removed from the lake has revealed that It it is is- of the same texture as that of undergarments undergarments under under- garments discovered in her het suitcase e. e I This suitcase was left b by bir the nurse at the tho Y V. V C. C A A. The police fla say they have not discovered the tho original garment from tram which tho the piece was torn Mrs Freeman Morningstar foster fos fosa ter mother of the nurse removed the suitcase from the Y W. W v. v C. C A. A following following follow follow- ing the discovery of the body and it was obtained from her ler home borne b by the police last night I |
