The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-10-25

The witness was questioned on this
again but would not repeat the state
ment if he had made it before. He
denied that Pasqualo had said to Va
lerio Let us go out and fight Ameri-
can st-le"
Wanted Valerie Discharged.
The last witness for the state was
Charles w. Clason, who is in the en-
ploy of the Barber Asphalt company.
He testified that about II o'clock in
the morning of the day of the shooting
PaSqualO had come to him ana told
and Nearey that he would get all the
other Italians to quit. Clason had
gone over to talk with Valerie about
it and to ask him who was boss. Be-
fore he got back to Pasqualo, Valerie
had thrown down his shovel and start
ed to walk off declaring he would not
work with such a man.
Defense Begins.
The defense opened it's case by call
ing Harry Baldwin, the little American
boy who was in the house at the time.
He said that he was in the dining room
and had seen Valerie and Pasqualo,
the former in the dining room and the
latter in the kitchen. He had heard
fo~ h,,t
understand what they said. Finally
Valerie had gone out into the front
hall and kept on going right through it
and he did not know what had become
of Pasqualo. When he heard the shot
| right afterwards he had gone home.
The Italian who testified next told
about the trouble in the saloon in the
afternoon when Valerie had tried to
throw a cuspidor at PasqualO.
PasquaIo Tells His Story
The defendant Joseph D. Pasqualo,
took the stand in his own behalf. and
for an hour and a half, interrupted
only by a few questions, he told his
story in broken English. The interest
of those present as he talked was in
| tense. Nearly every one in the court
room was standing when he got down
| incidents of the night when he shot
Valerio
He said that he and Valerie had al
ways been partners before the trouble.
| They We're very good friends and he
| was 10th to have any trouble with him,
and he claims to have told Valerie
this many times. He told about the
row in the saloon when Valerie had
started to throw the cuspidor at his
head and claimed that Valerios bad
feeling for him at this time was caus-
ed by his trying to act as peacemaker
| in a quarrel between Valerie and an
other Italian by the name of Frank
which had taken place in the same
saloon few minutes before. Pasqualo
claimed that he sought to keep from
having a row with Valerie by going
kept haunting him to fight and that he
offered to scrap with him in Ameri-
| can style with fists when they met
down by the court house. When they
got to the house where they all lived
| together Pasqualo claims that he still
| tried in every way to keep the peace.
He said that Valerie told him he would
sleep at the cemetery and that he
| would skin him. Pasqualo claims that
he was standing in the back kitchen
door when he shot at Valerie after
telling him three times to stop. He
said if he had not shot him Il would
be dead same as he is now
He then detailed the account of his
flight, and showed where he was cut
by the barb Wtre fence in getting out
Of the yard. He said he was afraid of
him, but came up town to get out of
his way. He got d glass of beer in a
saloon near the engine house, some
tobacco at store on Main street and
finally went into dance going on near
the bridge for a few minutes before
starting for the country to find a
friend who had offered him work a day
or two before.