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Show ADMITS ENOUGH ' TO BE CONVICTED Salt Lake, Oct. 17. Link by link the chain of evidence is hflng Torged by which the authorities hope to send Julius Szirmay to the gallows for tho murder of Thomas R. Karrlck at his home Wednesday noon. One last effort to wring from the accused a complete confession that he killed the yong man will be made to- day, but whether successful In tin:', or not the case against Szlrmay will le suillciently strong, those In charge-say, charge-say, to warrant his being formally charged with and pio3cuted for the I slaying of the 14-year-old hoy. Throughout all of Sunday afternoon, after-noon, and until aft?r 8 o'clock at night, the "sweating" of Szlrmay was kept up. wJth the result that every admission possible has been obtained, with the single exception that he positively posi-tively refuses to admit that he fired the shots which resulted in the death of young Karrlck. More Identification, of ,the most positive type, and the unearthing un-earthing of volumes of evidence, was the outcome of Sunday's Investigations. Investiga-tions. Szlrmny's attempt to throw the blame for the killing on the shoulders of another failed miserably Sunday afternoon when he was confronted in the office of Warden Arthur Pratt at the stale prison by Joseph Lukumskl, a friend of his. answering In every detail de-tail the description furnished the sheriff of the mysterious "Joe." When brought fnce to face with Lukumskl, Szlrmay, after a moment of hesitation, hesita-tion, declared he was not thex"Joo" to I whom he referred, in spite of the fact that Lukumskl had been feretted out' solely on the description furnished by the smpect. Positively Identified. Lukumskl o'perates a chicken ranch at Spring Hollow, near the mouth of Emigration canyon. Early Sunday afternoon af-ternoon Sheriff Sharp and several deputies went to the ranch, having learned at the Kropf home, where Szlrmay boarded, the location of the man's (Joe's) residence. Lukumskl was brought to the prison and closely interrogated. Ho expressed great surprise sur-prise when told .that Szlrmay had virtually accused him of 'being implicated impli-cated In the Karrlck murder. Lukumskl Lu-kumskl said he had met Szirmay at Wie Kropf home but two weeks ago, and that the only time he had been In Szlrmays company was last S. n-duy n-duy and .Monday. Szirmay was in Warden Pratt's office of-fice when Lukumskl was brought In. It hail been hoped that, when confronted con-fronted by the man he had accused of being tho rhurderer, the suspect might break dnwn, but this he failed to do. Szirmay simply said Lukii-nuki Lukii-nuki was ni the "Joe" he meant, and after being detained about an hour ami a half, Lukumskl was allowed al-lowed to depart. Sunday night three street railway employes were taken to the prison, and positively identified Szlrmay as having ridden on their cars on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. "W. J Allen, GUij South Third East street, a conductor on a Murray car, when confronted with Szirmay, had no difficulty in. Identifying the suspect as the mah who, about SS'.) o'clock Wednesday morning, the morning ef the in:ribr of Karrlck. boarded bis car while it was coming to Salt lake. alien's attention was attracted l the man because he carried car-ried a haml-suA wrapped in a newspaper news-paper under his arm. Tho man rode to the citv, received a transfer and alighted.. j Seen Again Wednesday. Conductor E. A. Johnson. ."7S East Tenth S"iilh street, and Motorman II. P. Meyers, 7Z2 Jeremy slreei. who were on the University inn Wednesday, Wednes-day, both stated positively thai Szirmay Szir-may had boarded the r car about 11 o'clock on Wednesday and had lid-den lid-den on the front vestibule as far as Thirteenth East an I Fiist South streets, where he alighted and started to walk up the hill, in the direction of the Karrkk home B,th Johnson and Mcrs saw Szirmay with a saw, wiapped In a newspaper, under bis arm. Their attention to the saw was attracted by the lact thai Szlrmay when he paid his fare, had to put the saw between his knees and reach Into his pocket for a .".-cent piece. 1 On 'J hursday afternoon. Conductor! Allen stated. Sziuray had hoarded his! car uptown and had ridden as far.-outh as Fifteenth Smith street, wheic be alighted. All three street car e:n-rlr-yes were positive In their blentlii-catlon. blentlii-catlon. The statements of Conductor Johns-ou and Motorman Myers are re-garded re-garded as conclusive that Szizmay went alone to the Karrlck home, anil that his story of h;.ing an accomplice h: lalse in its entirety. Further evidence came to l'ght Sunday Sun-day that Szirmay had 'been upstairs in the Karriek home, when theGil-leite theGil-leite razor blade with which be bad tried to cut the arteries in his wiist before drink'iig chloroform was found to answer a desctlplion of several similar blades taken from $hc third floor of the Karrkk home on the day of the murder. Additional evidence that Szirmay was not In Provo on Thursday, and that he was pot the man who tried to pawn a lady's gold wr.-.cii there, Is had |