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Show GREEK KILLED IN A SCUFFLE LAST NIGHT Frank Carjls is dead and Peter De-tnentre De-tnentre g in the city jail, with a probable prob-able charge of murder to be placed against him. as the result of a friendlv scuffle, which ended in anger, last night Both men are Greeks and the trasedv occurred in an amusement hall frequented by Greeks, at 141 Twenty-fifth street. The death of Carjis was fine to the severing of his juaular vein by a knife in the hands of Dementre. According to information ghen the police by witnesses of the affair, the two men had gnne into tho amuse ment hall, with a number of their countrymen, and while in there com menced to "bandy'' words with each other In a friendlv way and finalb commenced to scuffle. During the scuffle. nn of them said somethlnc out of the way and friendliness turned to anger , Immediately after the cutting had liwn done, Dementre rushed out of the amusement hall and ran to the police station, pursuenl by a crowd of his countrymen. hen he reached thp station, hn entered thp front door and stagpored into the desk sergeant's room, while his pursuers were stopped stop-ped at the station entrance. As soon as he had recovered his spent breath, Dernentre explained that he had stabbed stab-bed a mao saying that the deed had een done in self defense and asked to be locked up in a cell. He also said that he and the other man had been engaged In a friendly scuffle and that his companion become angry and had raised a chair to strike him. The police had received a report of the cutting affray and. just as De mentre entered the station. Detective Wardlaw and Sergeant left for the cene in the auto-patrol They went to the amusement hall and brought Carjls to the station. Dr E M. Con-roy Con-roy was called In and did everything in his power to save the Greek's life, but the man had lost too much blood from the cut in his neck and cuts on his breast and he died about 8 o clock at the station. Dementre's statement as to having done the cutting in self-defense, Is said to have been borne out by some of his couutrvmen who were presenl during the trouble. Further developments In the case are to the effect that an inquest over the body of the dead man will be held tomorrow or Saturday. A jury consisting con-sisting of T. B. Wheelwright, Samuel Thomas and Peter Cunningham, was impanelled this morning and at 2:15 p. m. went to the Larkin mortuary, In company of Judge William H. Reeder. Detective George Wardlaw and Deputy Sheriff Hobson and viewed view-ed the body The examination showed that Car jis had received five wounds, each of them apparently being about 8 inches deep One of the cuts seered the jugular vein, one was in the left arm near the shoulder, one on the point of the left shoulder and the other in the middle of the back on the left side. The last went through the muscles into the abdominal cavity. It was learned today that Carjis has a brother In Wisconsin and news of the tragedy was telegraphed him. A cousin. Antone Pounos of 427 Twenty-eighth street, was ut the mor tuary this morning and stated that he had made a thorough investigation as to the circumstances attending the killing of Carjis. He eaid that, as far as he could learn, no one in the room at the time saw Carjls even touch a chain, as Dementre had al leged. Witnesses told him that De mentre was seated at a table in the room when Carjis, who was slightly intoxicated, approached and began to joke with him. Dementre took offense of-fense at something that he said and jumped up and stabbed him Pounos also said that Dementi! bore a bad reputation among hl3 countrymen and that he was suspect ed of having come to America to cs cape trial for a murder committed in Greece. This affair, Pounos statei will also be investigated Pounos has lived In Ogden about ten years and is fairly well educated. educat-ed. Carjis has been working between Ogden and Salt Lake for the past seven years for the O Neil 1 Construe tion company. |