Seized by the war spirit, Gustave Koslopulos, formerly of Denver, sold his belongings to return home with other patriotic Greeks to fight against Turkey in 1912.
Instead, he was arrested boarding a train with his comrades in Milwaukee - where he lived under an alias - and returned to Denver at the request of the governor as a suspect in the shooting death of Augusta Robinson at 2046 Arapahoe St.
At first the shooting, on May 6, 1912, was thought to have been an accident, but the woman's daughter told an inquest that a man of Greek descent threatened her mother if she were “untrue to him.’’ Robinson had just remarried, the Rocky Mountain News reported in its Nov. 2, 1912, edition.
A search of the Colorado Historic Newspapers website found no further reports on the odd shooting case, however, a man bearing that name - Gustave Koslopulos - died in March 1933 and was buried back in Wisconsin at the Wildwood Cemetery in Sheboygan, according to the Find a Grave website.
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