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Show PATTEN RfiURDERER STILL JT LARGE SALT LAKE. . Aiu. 7. "Speedy," the man accused of nhootlog Tim Patten Pat-ten at the Heidelberg at l:.rit) o'clock Friday morning, is,. It now transpires, a habitue of various places of Ill-repute and an attendant on either sotne: women or woman. So far he has not been apprehended, but the police are working on a clue which Is liable to land him at any moment. , According to information furnished the police department, .Teffiros was not altogether the bad man that first accounts gave. On the contrary, his friends claim he wan a mild. Inoffensive Inoffen-sive fellow and his shooting; of Patten was the outcome of actual bodily fear. On a number of occasions, it In stated. Patten has severely beaten up Jef-flrc-B, who was not only more mild-mannered, mild-mannered, but rven Inoffensive. It had also beeu claimed that Jef-fires Jef-fires had been arrested by the police several times, and that he had also acted as "stool pigeon" for the department. de-partment. This statement, Chief of Detectives George Sheets said this morning, is not true. While Patten had Just about as nd a reputation as most low men have, yet on the con trary, Jeftlrcs had no police record as far as he knew. The police department Is relng every effort to find .Tefflrcs. and the departments of surrounding cities hove been appealed to to aid in his apprehension. Stella Kelley or "Palten" has been arrested and is now. being held as an Important witness, as It Is believed that she knows at present the whereabouts where-abouts of Jefflres, but is shielding him. |