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Show ARRESTS TO BE MADE IN ZION Salt Lake, March 25. Marie Green, Llllie Green and Elias "Tub" Miller, former husband of Marie Green, were arrested last night by Bert Seager, and Richard Eddington, deputy sheriffs, sher-iffs, and will bo held without bail pending further investigation into tho details incident to the death of Leonard Leon-ard Coudie, who was found dead in the Green home Saturday morning. The arrest of the Green sisters and Miller is the outcome of the verdict of the coroner's jury empaneled to investigate into the death of Condie. The jury returned a verdict yesterday yester-day to the effect that Condie had come to his death by a gunshot wound in the head just below the right ear and that the bullet had been fired by an unknown person. Marie Green denied on the stand yesterday that she, Condie and Miller had quarreled on the street car while on the way home. This contradicted statements made by William Cook and Easton Young, who testified they had overheard the quarrel and had left, the car at the same time as Marie Ma-rie Green and her companions. Young and Cook said Miller attempted to provoke (Jo-'-die and offered to fight him. 'iticy said that they left the car anticipating a fisticuff encounter between Condie and Miller, but that Condie i of used to fight. Cook and Young also testified that they had overheard Miller threaten to have Condie arrested for white slavery. According Ac-cording to Cook, Marie Green refused re-fused to go home if Miller was to accompany them. Condie offered her his gun but when Miller defied her to shoot him she refused, said the witness, but threatened to hit Miller with a bcttle of wine she was carrying car-rying if he persisted in going to her home. Marie Green swears that this conversation never took plac and avers that she walked in the rond while Condie and Miller walked on the sidewalk to the Green home. Says Condie Threatened Her. Marie Green testified that following follow-ing the departure of Miller at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning she had been forced by Condie to go into a bedroom with him. She says that he threatened to kill her. When Con-'jie Con-'jie fell asleep she said, she climbed through the bedroom window, Condie Con-die having placed his foot against the door so that it would be impossible for her to leave by the door without waking him. She said that after getting out she went to the front of the house. |