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c:..:w':svy .»J-as as ^acavr.iis S~a jjec Turing an A_:erca:ion a: ’Va:ervi e Cone ay Tig 1;.\ :yr u- ”» *- o in harapis C target With Crime==NineWitnesses Are He“d==Story of 3oy. Who Saw the I lure er Committee.\Vate-rvllIe, Me , June 11.—(Special), age, feet, 8 inches in height, of lighter —The second murder m the history of complexion than most Greeks, and one\\ atervjlte occurred at 6 4* tonight is s1iShtly discolored as» the result __ - „ ~ r t ^ ... a recent disagreement with a fellowC istas R Lakav.thss. an Alban- countryman. He Is not man-led.Ian, was .stabbed twice in the abdomen The murdered man hail a wife hi Ws and fell dead at the font of the stair-,native country and a sister, besides way leading out of the store in the tlY^e brothers in Hi is country.Bonn block on Bridge street, kept by Proprietors of the store where1 J the trouble occurred arc Castas N. several Greeks. The police after what Latem11lJlli Ij0Uls LakavilhK Evan-Mas at first expected would be a fruit- geliat LakavltJiis, cousins of the mur-1^S9 search, apprehended John Tliara- lt;]*rod man. The murdered man badms. who 5s Charged with the crime. bee* this country about two months.Considerable interest is attached to a Tharapis is hems held tonight under Ftpry {o!(3 by Wiiham j01ics, a i-j-year-guard in the local police station to- 0y\ boy, the son of George Jones, Ilead setber with nine Greeks Mho are being of the Falls. He tells a straightforward retained as witnesses. story, in substance as follows:,, , - „ “I was going towards the cotton millJust how the trouble occurred Is a , f . .matter ot doubt. A crowd of about 25 ^(i ^ Pass ng along Front street atGreeks and Albanians had gathered in 5 45 ° T ,1 \ n l Zthe store after supper am? a disagree- talking^ogether us though they weremerit led to blows. It is thought by the an ^ ™ey Z*™ ™ ‘ «rpoliec that only a few in the crowd back steps on the Front street side oaeruattv su» the stabbing done. Tho the Dunn bioek Qf course I could notact was acconMhhed with a butcher understand what they said, but theyknife about 11 inches long, and which aPP®^ »» be y mad. is now in the hands of the police to be I was watching them the fel-used as evidence, low wh® afterwards ran away, pulledMam street was crowded with poo- wit a big knife. It was over a foot long. p!e at the time of the tragedy. The He stabbed the other fellow with It scene of the murder is just around-the twice and left the knife sticking into corner from the entrance to the Bay himView hotel. When the stricken man “The man who was stabbed steppedstaggered dqsvn the steps into tlie back and his assailant picked up a open air tlie sight of the sourting blood btkk and started, to hit him on thecalled a cry of horror to be raised by head 'Mr. Ballard, who didn’t seem a crowd of boys playing in the street to know that the /trouble was so Borland a big crowd soon gathered. ous, shouted td the Greek not to hitCoroner Frank Redington, Officers, him on the head but to drop, the bnck Brillatd, City Marshal Holmes and or he would have’-him 'pinched' other officers' were soon on the scene. “The victim, of the stabbing stagger-Dot tors’ were hastily summoned, hut c6 into the stoje. The other man stood the victim of the stabbing breathed hi^ a couple of minutes in front Of the door dust within 10 minutes ,from the time and sftoofi a few jminSitefl more at the of the stabbing. corner of Front'and Bridge streetsOwinrr to the uncertainty as to the yfhen he saw that Mr. Brlllard was identity of th^ murderer there v;as an ofiicer he ran away toward „ Ti-some delay in gUnig chase. Nine of th^ conic bridge X do not know* whether Greeks were locked into the store by* no crossed |t or . not. the officers The remaind^r escaocd im- . “Tiyen the man ihtc* v'hom the knife mediately upon realising that) the afiair beep plunge^ Started and passedwas a serious one. A paity of eight or jh through the store'to the, counter, ten Greeks, of whom Tharapis is sard ^vhere smeone pulled the kriife 'from to have been one. rushed out of the the* wound, Then ho caine out of the building in a body and ran to their own ^Qre and fell doiVn'on the sidewalk. lodg|ngs in the Gilman block on* While the story told by young Jones Charles street, disagrees in several particulars withWlmn Deputy Sheriffs George II* story told by others, It is beingSimpson and C. B* Jones arrived on .giVen consideration.'the scene they were confronted by County Attorney Fr$lt;J Emery Beane throe clues, leading in different tXiree- an?| gheiiff Plaisted were at owe noli-turns. Qne man, a Greek, had becfL seen ^P(| 0£ murder. They will come standing at the corner of Bridge and tomorrow and conduct an Jnves-Front streets and when he perceived tigat|oru ,Ofiicer Brlllard approaching he at onco Theease Is in charge of CoronoY ran, down Bridce street across 1 Frank Redington. The remains areTiconic br'uXgc into% yVinslow, aisap-- rjOW -m itedington's morgue and it is pea ring m the vicinity of Sand probable that an autopay will be heldThree other Greeks had been . prj0r the hwiuest, the date for which running Irom the place where the stab- [g nQt a ^SU occurred dow» :fflf^-J-J ^ -°vw Western aye^c]U(,3 waa M to CoUnty Authorities Promptly Act, _caused to the .. , man - Sheriff Plaisled was early notified ofwhich of these pat ties lauded the n ^ mur{jer at Watervl,lB laateveningwanted. '• v and promptly Instructed hi^ deputiesThe x\.lbanl0-na* ^20 °*e , v . to be ort the lt;uit3oolc for the murderer,thr* murdered map, were unanimous 1 0^iVi\10Tn a description was furnished, declaring that John Thaxapis was alSl# notified comity Attorneyman who had eommittecl the mur e . jjert:ne, w'ho will go to Watervllle thisThey were informed that his home was Trirtrnin^ conduct an Investigation.in the Gitman biock and accordingly at fjr5t rep0rteti that the mur-Deputy Sheriffs Jonea and Simpson ^er crof?sed the Winslow bridge gave the block a thorough searching and ^kag this way, so the ^lep-from top to bottom. tity sheriffs and police of this and ourFailing to find any one they secured neighboring cities were on the watch o Mm and accompanied by Arthur wjlim news came of his capture, \S’. . W Who khow Tharapis W -Sight they drove to Winslow and scoured the country.. hHt failefl to find Ty trace ot their man.* They r^urned to Watervtllo and Deputy Marshal Simpson asserted his belief that the S wanted was in the city. He paid another visit to the Gilman block and 'on the third floor found a room, the door of which was closed. He knocked*”‘Arlt;fyou in there, John T -larapis?’’^Ycs,” came the reply in bjroken Eng-‘iPThe officer entered the room and found his man Inside. Tharapis accom-r,anted the officer to the station without trouble, submitting to arrest with-°On aSvaftt the police station the man was searched, but no dangerous v^apon was found upon hlnL Tbe rights of tho prisoner were respected by Sfe othcers and he wa* not questioned __ tnWfed to by anyone. Ho was kept apart from the other Greeks in the offi-cS room of the police BtatWh. under^‘Smrapis to about £2 or 23 years of
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Daily Kennebec Journal
Augusta, Maine, US
Wed, Jun 12, 1907
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