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Show GREEK ARRESTED FORi THE MURDER OF Jl WOMAN Bingham, April lfi Alter an absence ab-sence from the United States nl nearly near-ly two y.ears, John Ix-zendis was arrested ar-rested here tonight bj Chief of Police S. S. .lones on suspicion i having been implicated in the murder of Williams Wil-liams in the summer of 1012. The arrest of Lezendis Is said to be directly due to investigations which wi ii- made by Otto Witbeck, the deputy dep-uty sheriff who was shot and killed by Raphael Ixipez Witbcck made a I rinid investigation Of the Williams I murder, which was a particularly brutal brut-al one. and his suspicion centered upon up-on Lezendis. He had confided his vidonrr- to his superiors, and alter Witbeck's death the 'information aa give i to other officers here, who have been looking for Lezendis since. Thr crock returned to Bingham several sev-eral days nco tilling his friends that he had served in the Creek army and had been discharued after his term of' enlistment had expired It Is known that lezendis was acquainted with the Williams woman Evidence in the hands ol' the police is said to he to the effect that just after the Williams Wil-liams murder and prior to his depar- ture from the United States. Lesendls sold some especially valuable dla-monds, dla-monds, said to answer to the descrlp- j tion of those taken from the flncers and ears of the woman after she had j been killed W hen he formerly lived In this i city LesendiS was a partner of .lohn Condas, carrying on a meat business. Lesendii had nothlnc to say con-' con-' certiing his arrest last night and did nut seem to exldence any interest In the cause of his having been taken into in-to custody. The exact reason for his arrest was not told to him by the police All of the evidence against Lzen dis will be laid before the county attorney at-torney tomorrow, and it Is expected that a complaint will ho Issued by him within a short tlffiw. The murder of the Williams woman was discovered by another woman who occupied an adjacent room. Dur-j I inn the evening EthH Williams had entertained two men with selections) ! played on a phonograph In her room. The whirring of the machine and the , scratching of the needle point of the i i instrument, continued for a lone while without an other sound, aroused the mi - pi. inn of t he nelclC i r She went to the door of the Wil- Iiams woman's room and called, but was not answered. The police were I called and the door opened. The Wll I liams w..man was lylne on her bed dead, her throat showing the black and blue marks caused by the stran- I gler. The diamond earrings and fin-rcr rings habitually worn by the William i woman had been ruthlessly torn from her ears and hands b) the murderers A pocketbook in the room had been rifled It Is thought that the murder- i er wound up the phonograph before ! their departure In order that no suspicion sus-picion mighl he aroused. After the Williams woman had been buried, a fight arose in Salt Lake over her estate, it developing that she had several thousand dollars on deposit de-posit there Final disposition of the I case has nor yet been made. |
