Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-08
A MURDER.
The Result of a Quarrel Near
Elysian Park.
Giuseppe Valerga Stabbed in
the Groin.
Statements of Those Who We're Pres
ent at the Time.
George Cesello Accused of the Crime-He
Escapes Arrest and Eludes the
Police Officers.

AT 10 80 O'Clock last night an old ltal-
ian, named Louis Rapetto, went to the
police station and notified the authori-
ties that Giuseppe Valerga, a young
Italian had been murdered some three
hours earlier, out at his home near the
Elysian Park. Detective Bosqui and
Officer Leverich at once started out
with the old man to the scene of the
murder, and finally came to small
canon about one and one-1uarter miles
north of the pesthouse. The old man
led the officers up the caf1on for short
distance until they neared small cabin,
when some sixty feet from the dwelling
they found the body of man lying in
the roadway. The officers at once made
an examination of the corpse, which was
in a doubled-up position and on
its right side. They found a
wound in the right groin which
was one and quarter inches in length,
but very deep, and which had evidently
been produced by double-edged sheath
knife. The body was quite cold, but
blood still slowly trickled from the
wound to a large pool, which had
formed. Two Italians, Giuseppe Dem
oria and Giuseppe Cordano, were in
charge of the body, and they were at
once questioned by the officers as to what
they knew about the affair. The result
of their enquiries led the officers
to call at the house of an old man named
Cesello, about mile distant, and on the
other side Of the ridge. Here they
learned that Geosge Cesello, the son
OF the old man, and several other
Italians, had been drinking a good deal
during the day, and had caused some
little disturbance in the house. In
the evening Demoria and young Cesello
went over to Valergas house to
sell him a barrel of wine, and as there
had been some bad blood between the
two young men for some time past, the
trade was not made. After a good deal
OF noise and quarreling Cesello and Val
erga went out into the road together
and suddenly the latter called out, and
G. Cordano, one of his laborers, rushed
out and found him lying in the road.
Demoria also ran out and Valerga
having said his leg was broken, the two
men attempted to lift him up to remove
him to the house. AS soon as they did
so, however, the blood spurted from his
WOeili' ilhc d lOultslll, anu Illey ldlu nlI1
down to bleed to death. In the
meantime old man Rapetto, who was
asleep in the house, woke up and went
out to find his employer dying in the
roadway, no one being able to occount
for his wound, and he at once set out to
walk to town and notify the police The
officers made inquiries, but were unable
to learn in which direction Cesello
struck out after the row, and
up to the hour of going to
press they were without clue
as to his whereabouts. Detective Bosqui
brought the body into town at 80
O'Clock this morning, and with it both
Demoria and Cordano, who were locked
up in the city Jail as witnesses.
Both men were considerably inebri-
ated at the time, and it is thought
may divulge something of Importance
when sober. In the meantime, every
effort is being made to capture George
Cesello, who is supposed to have stabbed
the dead man, and it is probable, owing
to his drunken condition, that he will be
brought in this morning.