Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-02-07 | Page 13 | Cafe Owner Ordered to Stan D Murder Trial

' Cafe Owner Ordered To Stand Murder Trial s , Samuel Martinez Gets Hearing Over Fatal Shooting Shoot-ing of Louis Galento After Beating Samuel Martinez, 39, cafe operator, Wednesday was held for trial in Third district court on a first degree murder charge involvina the fatal shooting January 20 of Louis Galento, 39. Defense attorneys Introduced no' evidence before City Judge Bryan P. Leverich, who presided at the preliminary hearing. City Detective Fred Lee, testifying testi-fying for the state, related admissions admis-sions the defendant allegedly made after police arrested him. These Included a statement that Marlines Mar-lines twice ejected Galento and his companions from Martinez's Corona Co-rona cafe, 528 West Second South street, for causing a disturbance, and that later, when Martinez left the cafe, he was attacked by Galento Ga-lento and the others. Returning to his cafe, Martinez obtained a revolver nd shot Galento, the officer of-ficer quoted the defendant. Joe Eligando, 22, testified he heard two shots, ran to a vacant lot near Fourth West and Second South streets and found Galento wounded. Eligando said he enlisted en-listed aid of a motorist to take Galento to the emergency hospital. hos-pital. Dr. Henry Ralle, police surgeon, testified Galento, who lived at 20 Rustic place, died of a bullet wound on the left side just below be-low the ribs.