Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-10-07 | Page 10 | Slaying Laid to Wine Brawl

SLAYING LAID TO WINE BRA 4 A com complaint p I a 1 n t charging l' l Velasquez 6 15 Ve West Vest t South Te street with ith voluntary a I u n tar n slaughter in la connection with 1 slaying October 5 of Richard rd J gado do 42 was Mas signed Monday i foro fore City F F. Judge J. J Bronso I City Detective Lester F. F Wire 0 Charges were to be filed M MOD by the county att attorneys attorney's neya I aga against John Velasquez 45 6 South Temple Templo street accused 4 slaying a n. fellow Mexican In a i night brawl I J Chief of ot Police William I L Ie Pj Pi I said ho had a written conf il from Velasquez J I IA A half gallon jug of ot wine act rd argument nt and a quarrel money led t to the he slaying of Jea De Delgado gado 42 father of or four childre it was said t 1 Tho The two men and their had lived in the same house fl fe years J t Saturday night Velasquez V a Delgado purchased a half of or wine according to the confess l lof of Velasquez They drank the Won wi wion Wi Wion on the way home from a state store On the route home an ar arment arment ment over family matters doped der deVi i iThe The men also argued over a dIsion dision dI sion of 20 Delgado claimed for t sale of a jointly owned police said j i i Arriving home about 1130 p p. p i Saturday Velasquez z said raid they W wItto we Into their respective quarters tat Lai they went outside where according to witnesses Velasquez with n a razor then seized the handle of a hea hu- track maul and struck Delgado tl times on the tho head 1 Police found Delgado dead 41 4 the sidewalk In front of his hop hon Velasquez left the vicinity met mit friend John Paez 38 W South Temple Templo street and to inform police then awaited t tI arrival of officers Velasquez claimed d defeu em His story was substantiated ed byM Cruz Delgado wife of ot the ilman ill II illman man Anita Delgado 12 the t cc pies pie's daughter and William Villiam A a neighbor West Vest So Sos Sou Temple street t. t 1 Delgado leaves his widow and fo ft sons eons and daughters Victor At Ash Vera Vcra and Thomas Delgado ll all all' Salt Lake City I