Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-31
MYSTERY SHROUDS
MURDER OF BRIDE
County Detectives Find Clue to
Alleged Slayer, Which They
Keep Secret.

Officials of the prosecutors office
and the Bloomfield police are almost
hopelessly at sea in their search for
the slayers of Mrs. Alviro Cerciello,
the 20-year-old bride, whose body was
found in vacant lot in Bloomfield
yesterday morning
Chief of County Detectives Freder-
iell Weimer has had five men con-
stantly at work since the discovery of
the body, early yesterday morning,
but so far they have found but one
clue, and that very slight one,
through which they have any hope Of
discovering the perpetrators of the
crime.
That the young bride of four
months was murdered for revenge is
the theory of the police at work on
the case. but they are up against the
proposition of being unable TO find
any one that had a grudge against
Mrs. Cerciello.
1t is known that the woman had an
old sweetheart who was cast aside
when Mrs. cerciello married her husa
band four months ago, and the move
ments of this man were traced "a
Thursday night with the result tstat
he has positively been elimins fed
from the ase He accounts fcs his
Whereabouts every minute of the
time from the moment the murdered
woman left her home at 400 Chester
avenue about O'Clock Thursday
night and up to and including the
time he was located by Detective Ser
geant Walter Godfrey and Court In
terpreter Federico.
The solitary clue that the county
officials have they are keeping under
cover, but 1t is known that they con-
slider it of little value in finding the
slayers of Mrs. Cerciello.
+ It is believed by the county author
tiles that more than one person was
concerned in the staying, but they re-
fuse to state what basis they have
for this belief. The officials also state
that a knife and some other weapon,
probably a hatchet, had been used in
killing the woman. Some of the cuts
on her arms and hands. received as
she attempted to defend herself, could
not have been made by knife. 1t is
pointed out, as the right hand is al
most severed at the wrist, while sew
eral of the fingers were slashed right
through to the bone.
The back of the woman's head was
also cut and hacked to pieces there
being no less than eight fractures of
the skull. A knife could not be WELD
ed with sufficient force to do this
damage, it is pointed out.
That the object of the Staying was
revenge is made stronger by the fact
that the women's jewelry was not
taken, although sum of money be-
tween SITS and 5000, which the wom-
an is alleged to have in her possess
sion is missing. A careful search is
being made for this money, it being
the belief of the detectives that she
may have thrown it away in the va
cant lot where her body was found
before she was beaten and cut into a
helpless state. The fact that the
woman was not assaulted also bears
out the revenge theory.
The one thing that is bothering the
detectives now is where the woman
spent the time between nine O'Clock
Thursday night when she left her
home until she was murdered. That
time is placed after midnight Thurs
day night, but as yet no trace of
where the woman spent the interven-
ing hours has been found.