Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-05
SURE FINGERPRINT
ON AXE IS THAT Of
VICTIMS HUSBAND
Positive Identification Is Made
by Clerk of BertillOn
Office.
POLICE BELIEVE BROTHER
IMPLICATED IN CRIME
Conflicting Stories Told by An.
gelo cercieIIo of Actions on
Night of Staying.

The bloody finger print distinctly
outlined on the handle Of the hatchef
used to kill Mrs Olvira cercielio,
the 20-year-old bride OF four months
of Angelo Cerciello, of 400 Chester
avenue, has been positively identi-
fled as that of the third finger of the
right hand of the husband.
The positive Identification was made
today by Edward Schwartz, head Of
the Bertillon system at police head
quarters, after he had made a care
fui and exhaustive study Of the
finger-prints of Cerciello and hfs
brother Vincenzo and of John viola,
who at first was thought might have
been the slayer Viola Committed
suicide at the City Hospital last
Saturday by jumping from a window
just as he was about to be operated
on for wound in the abdomen.
The prosecutors office, as usual. re-
fuse TO admit anything in connection
with the case and will not say that
the finger print is that of Angelo
Cerciello. The county officials who
have been working en- the case are
highly pleased with the outcome Of
the tests and are busily at work to-
day tracing the whereabouts of An
gelo cerciello on last Thursday night,
the night of the killing.
Stories Conflict.
Cerciello has told conflicting stories
of the time he closed his store at 400
Chester avenue on that night. and
also as to the time he notified the
f1n1 IL
missing. His wife left the store at
about o'clock that night, and a.
far as the prosecutors officers or the
Bloomfield police have been able to
find was not seen again until her
dead body with the head. arms and
hands practically hacked to pieces
was found on a vacant lot in Bloom-
field avenue.
Cerciello has stated that Re closed
the store at about 10:30 and went 10
bed and that when midnight arrived
and his wife had not returned he
notified the Bloomfield police. The
Bloomfield police Headquarters blot-
ter shows that CercielIo notified the
police by telephone at 2:10 Friday
morning of the disappearance of his
wife.
Believe Brother Aided.
The identification of the finger
print as of the husband does not re-
move all question of the possible
completely of Vincenzo Cercielio in
the crime, as the authorities are OF
the impression that another weapon
than the hatchet was used. II is
pointed out that some of the slashes
on the woman's hands and face could
not have been made with a hatchet.
but were made with a sharp knife or
stiletto. No trace of knife or still
etto has vet been found.
While oRenely protesting to believe
that Viola, who was found not far
away from the body of the dead
woman a few hours before her body
was discovered, was not connected
with the crime in any way, it is be-
lieved they are quietly at work on
theory that Mrs. CercielIo and Viola
were found together by the husband
and brother-in-law and that the
wound in yiolas abdomen was in
flicted by one of the two men before
he had a chance TO run away This
wound was such as would be inflicted
by stilleto or possibly with a slant
ing blow of sharp hatchet with only
the point of the blade entering the
body.