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Show NEW FACTS III MURDER CASE Brother ot Nurse Held by Police: Po-lice: Significant Discovery Dis-covery Made SALT LAKE. Nov 13. With several sev-eral facts pointing to suicide, and an equal number indicating murder, the mystery of tho death of Miss Frances Korous nurse, whose body was found in Llberay park lake- last Saturday, still is unsolved by the police. Yarro E. Korous, hnlf-brother of the dead woman, who was yesterdav placed under un-der detention, Is still being held on an unspecified charge U wjis admitted esterday b bolh police and sheriff authorities that no further progress had been made In solving the mjstery and that tho arrest ar-rest of Korous was not prompted by any direct evidence ussociatlng hini with the death f the nurse V I. l I.' , -, Pertinent new facts uncovered yca-terda yca-terda were that, according to Korous Ko-rous the paternal grandfather of him "it and his hair-sletor, committed suicide, sui-cide, that Underclothing similar to the texture of the cloth fi.und around the dead woman's neck wua found among her effects and that the dead woman was found to be the owner of a home on South State street Rumors have been current for more thun three days that the police would eventually hold Korous as a suspect and hl.s dei-ntion ester.la caused no surprise. Until this arrest the police and sheriffs office worked In cooperation coopera-tion with the county attorney and at all the conferences it was known that Korous .n under suspicion. The ar- reat resterday was not through the alsco en of new evidence, but upon Intorniutlon In possession of the authorities au-thorities for five or six days After the detention of Korous his Wife was brought to the police head's head-'s from lu-r home and Questioned Question-ed foi an hour and one-half concerning concern-ing Previous statements both she 'and her husband had made. After she had been thoroughly questioned it was made Known to her that her husband was in Jail She collapsed and it was necessary for her brother-in-law, George Korous Ko-rous and Q A Appk-Kate, husband of the dead nurse s Hist, , . to as-slst her i from the building and to her home -Miss Rose Korous. sister of the murdered nurse, was taken 111 yesterday, yester-day, her breakdown re suiting from tho I strain to which she hod been iuDject-ed iuDject-ed while engaged In the search for the I missing woman. the Ending of the I body and incidents following until the funeral Thursdax jUr testimony Is sought by the authorities MAINTAINS INNOCENCE Chief of Police Hurbrldge and Chief oi Detectives Heckstead conducted the! examination of Ynrro Korous and his, Wife While reluctant to divulge the! intimate details of facts gleaned from' the testimony taken from thc man and wife both Officials intimated that tho Case was dev.. loping rapidly Korous u.,s taken into custody bv Iietectne C C Carslensen and R L Eddlngton shortly after yesterday noon at the Model Steam Laundry 2U West Second North street, where he Is I employed as an engineer When ques'-tloned ques'-tloned he maintained his innocence of any guilt in connection with the death of his sister included in his answers to questions say the police, were explanations of hlo financial condition Although pre-VOUSlS pre-VOUSlS said to have hud no debts Korous Ko-rous revealed that there was a $600 note In a local bank, the remainder duo on his house, and that he still owed $50 on a truck he recently purchased, pur-chased, paying $200 cash and making monthly payments of $25 DENIES RUMORS I did not owe my sister $100 ' Yarro Korous sild yesterday In the city jail "I never did owe her any money I never borrowed an money from her. There Is as much foundation for the rumor that I owed her $400 as there was for tho rumor that I had confessed to killing her " "I belleye that the girls were Interested Inter-ested together In some land Investments Invest-ments a piece ; land In Dry canyon, a placer mining claim or something of the sort, and some land in California. Cali-fornia. I do not even remember hav-tn? hav-tn? heard where the Pa llf ornlo ln1 ts located though I perhaps heard one of them say ' 1 Shortly before the Interview was had with Korous, his wife, under Interrogation In-terrogation in tho office of the chief of detectives had Imparted the Information Infor-mation that the patornal gr.tndfath" r of her husband and his hulf-slstrr hud committed suicide n Rood many years ;igo at Kl erslde tew .1 GRANDFATHER'S si K IDE. "How did your grandfather die?" was asked of Koious. "Committed suicide I ni ver remember re-member seeing hirn i understand, usj I r member, that ho bunged himself, 1 I believe In a tree, about four miles outside of Riverside, Iowa.'' DISCOS hTRY HADE. A suitcase containing tho personal ( tfects of the dead woman was taken, possession of by the police yesterday. It had been h'.ld by her sister, Hose,: nt the home of Freeman Morning tar 929 East South Temple street Articles Arti-cles thought likely to be of signlfl-j cance were taken from her trunk, which had been removed from thc Y I W C A to the Mornlngstar home. I Among the articles wils a light- wiKht undervest. or shirt- which, ac-; cording to the Judgment of a knitting j expert, to whom It was submitted, is, of a texture Identical with that of the cloth found around the dead worn in neck. Comparison also established that the cloth consisted of the body of a garment of the sort, with the topj cut off at the armholes and with one aide ripped open. Even thc thread ibindintc on the lower odKe of the shirt was lound to be Identical with that( along one aide of the cloth TORSE IS PROPERTY OWNER. The suitense contained many photo-I photo-I graphs K few letters and numerous, newspaper clippings- Most of the I I clippings were of items of news of aj 'general nature. One attracted atten-, tlon. It was .1 newspaper account of, 'the experience of a physician with a: derivative of alfalfa as medicine fori I Indigestion and depression cf spirits V it 1 arrled u head announcing that alfalfa al-falfa had been discovered to be a cure; for melancholy It became known late last niKl.' that I Miss KOTOIIS held property valued at $4300 on South State street Its ex-,1 act location was not disclosed The 1 property consists of half a lot valued at $3000 und lmpro "ments valued ot OO 1 |