Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-09-13
GUILTY IN ID
DEGREE, GETS
twelve YEARS
Jury in New Market Murder
Case Was Out About Hour
and Half.
SENTENCED AT ONCE
Several Witnesses Recalled
to Contradict Testimony
OF the Defense.
DEFENDANT ON STAND
Told His Story of an Attack
Upon Him and Attempt
to Rob.
DEFENDANT ON STAND
Special to the EVENING NEWS.

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New Brunswick, Sept. 13:-Luigi
Cerefice was this afternoon found
guilty of murder in the second de-
gree on charge of killing Patrick
Cahill at New Market last May, and
Justice James ]. Bergen sentenced
him to serve twelve years in state
prison.
Thesjury retired at 11:40 o'clock
and returned about 1925 O'Clock.
Sentence was passed Immediately
after the verdict had been rendered
and the condemned man was taken
back to jail, preparatory to be taken
to prison to begin his term
The state and defense were given
forty minutes each this morning in
which. to sum up the case Justice
Bergen then charged the Jury.
The defense to the charge was that
the shooting had been done in self
defense. Prior to the calling of the
defendant to the stand the state
completed its case yesterday after
noon by swearing four more wit
nesses
DR.. Edgar Carroll, the county ply
sician, testified to performing an au-
topsy upon Cahill's body and finding
two bullet wounds in the head,
which had caused death. Chief of
Police Patrick Kiely, of Plainfield,
| swore to knowing Cahill for twenty
Ave years and to his identifying the
body as that Of Cahill.
Lizzie Warden, the woman the
state alleged Cahill and Cerefice
were Jealous of, took the stand and
testified to knowing both men and
to having made visits at the shanty
where the murder was committed.
Had Some Cider.
The woman said she had had cider
there on the night of May II, but
was not intoxicated, although she
was said to have been very drowsy
the next morning. She had last seen
Cahill on May II and had asked the
defendant about him when she saw
him (Ceref1ce) later on May IT.
Peter D. Spinelli identified a
translation Of the alleged confession
of the defendant, which was object
ed to because OF the wording not be-
ing quite proper. The court allowed
the correction and the confession
same as the story told by the defend
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testimony the state rested.
The Defense.
Lawyer ]. Victor D'Aloia, for the
defense, objected to the pistol and
bFudgeon being admitted into evil
dence. the state not having shown
any connection of the defendant to
them, but the court overruled the OBJ
lection.
He then outlined to the jury the
defense and declared they would
show that the story Of the state as to
there being a jealousy between the
two men over the Warden woman
was imaginary. There was no mo-
tive for the shooting. 1t had been
done in self-defense.
Luigi Cerefice then took the
stand in. his own defense, testifying
through the interpreter, Peter D.
Spinelli. He declared on the morn
ing of May II he got up early and
went to work, returning at O'Clock.
After supper he fed the pigs, had his
evenings smoke and went to bed.
In the middle of the night he was
awakened by a noise and a demand
In mans voice that he open the
door. He replied that he would
open the door for no one at that hour
of the night.
Story of The Struggle.
The demand was repeated that he
open the door and gRe up his money
or in five minutes the door would
be broken open and he would be
killed. The defendant said he then
started for his gun, when the door
was broken open. Somebody caught
him by the throat and he shot once.
They scufied and then the man
dragged him twenty feet out into the
yard and threw him down. Ceref1ce
then got club from behind the door
and struck the man hard and he
dropped to the ground. He then
went to bed as he was about dead
from the effects of his encounter.
At daybreak he got up and went
into the yard He saw the mans
body lying there and found 1t was
Cahill and that he was dead He
wrapped the mans body in a blan-
ket and buried it near the pig pen
underneath cornstRlks. The first
person he met after the murder was
the detective.
Cerefice said be had 500 in cash
In his house that night He never
had any quarrel over the Warden
woman He had wife and children.
They lived in Newark. He attended
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