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Show BMF0UI1DG1IY0F 2ND DEGREE HIBDER The jury empaneled to hear the c?se of the state against Alex Bargo. charged with the murder of Joserh Vea at Dividend last May, when P.aro. it was alleged, laid in wait at his old home until Vea came off shift at midnight, mid-night, when he is alleged to have killed Vea with an ax, with which he nearly severad Vea's head from his body. The case went to the jury Tuesday Tues-day at 4 p. m., and the verdict of guilty of second degree murder was announced at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, the penalty for which is from ten to twenty years in state prison. District Attorney J. H. McDonald Mc-Donald represented the state and Martin Mar-tin M. Larson the defendant. The case occupied the time of the court nearly a week. The case has its sympathetic sidi, many people being of the opinion that largo, in a measure, was justified in what he did. From evidence produced at the trial and obtainable from hear--,a.y, Bargo, it is alleged, killed Vea bo-cause bo-cause ho had misused Mrs. Vea and her small child which was the offspring off-spring of Bargo. At the tri.il Mr. Bargo, or Vea. testified that she had met Bargo in Michigan, and had lived with him as his wife for six years, one qmiI A. K.m',io- Hioira S'llp fll'O has another child by a former husband. hus-band. She told of Vea coming 'io their house to board and that he had persuaded per-suaded her that her husband, Bargo, was no good and that he frequently visited the red light distriet, which had resulted in her suarreling with Bargo which resulted finally in Bargo leaving the camp, after which she soon after married Vea. She told oT Vea mistreating her and often threat ening to whip her because she oh jectod to his bringing half-drunken men to their home. She told of Vea threatening to kill Bargo when he returned re-turned to Dividend, and how she had held Vea until Bargo had left. When Bargo was placed on the witness wit-ness stand he related how .he ha'l first met Mrs. Bargo in Michigan and said that they were married there in 1914 and that they had one child. He ' said that he had first met Vea in Park City, who later came to Dividend, when he gave h'm money on severrfl occasions and later upon Vea obtaining obtain-ing work took him in at his home as a boarder. From that time on the defendant de-fendant stated he had trouble with Vea, who he said had lied to Mrs. - i Pargo and told her stories which had caused her to leave him. He said he had asked his wife if she had any evidences that he was untrue to her and she had told him of the stories that Vea and others had told her. Mr. Bargo then told of Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff Kelley coming to him and asking him to leave the camp. Defendant '.tatert that he had assured the officer offi-cer that he was in the 'wrong, but that Deputy Kelly had advised Mm that the woman would no longer live with him, and he better reave town or he would arrest him. He told of how Kelly and Mrs. Bargo had offered him $50 if he would leave and how he had upon Deputy Kelley's persuasion accepted ac-cepted the. contract and left. Bargo told of his going to Nevada, and how ha later heard of Vea marrying marry-ing his wife and how he had received letters from friends telling him thnr the woman and children were being mistreated by Vea. and how he became be-came greatly worried over this and finally decided to return to Eureka so that he could be nenr'them and give them assistance if they needed it. |
