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lingtxesve-ofloss:nd-No-thcAs-tterlentfori Isnty000; is ;ion ail-ast lies entblesor/is-totheOnofes-inyent(Continued From race One) another one of his numerous confessions.” After the execution the warden made public the coned about an hour and a half before rendering their verdict.Sheriff’s officials are now reported to have speeded up their search for one Bonifacio Reyes, who is alleged to have been with Moreno at the time of the slaying and who was charged in the Complaint wtih murder. Reyes left Corona immediately after the slaying and has not been seen since, although reports to the Corona police were to the effect that he has been working in the Wineville district. Rameriz died from the effect of a beating over the head with a beer bottle, a week later at the county hospital. Following his death, Moreno was arrested near his home in Corona by Chief of Police Garner and Officer Bill” Patterson of the local force.Moreno was charged with first-degree murder, but the state, according to the prosecutors, expected a manslaughter verdictax. from the jury, in view of the factoutison,ectax.sen3esontorre-m-m-slyheISiJllovthtwLcthies.thiinhuindisfirihissmthethemeapjwashewajqult;acctheRatheaftModalbeiitfoilIduecascarme:PetSe-irtheis-jr-ic-chirttoiinann-heasP-nsrethat the fatal attack evidently was not premeditated. In most cases the state charges first-degree murder and leaves the decision of the degree to -the jury.Moreno on the stand yesterday and the day before denied the charges, testifying that he went to the Rameriz home at four I ge, yclock Sunday morning to get a' I trie pint of “white mule,” which he alleged that Rameriz had sold him on previous occasions. In the yard at the Rainer*z home the aged man made at him with a knife in his hand and after being refused the Jiquor, he turned and ^ 1 walked away.The state claimed and evidently proved their case to the jury that Moreno and Reyes had gone to the aged man’s home to try and force their way into the house. When Rameriz tried to repulse them with a butcher knife, the two beat him over the head with a beer bottle. Fragments of the bottle were found at the scene by officials later. Rameriz, with his skull fractured, staggered into the house and was put to bed. Later in the day a local physician was summoned and dressed the wound. When he returned later, a daughter of the injured man had arrived from Los Angeles and had taken her father to the county hospital. ThreeLdays later the old man died without regaining consciousness.witancBiowilThlt;sauIaprforalt!hacthebeeADoixtn-a-e-aheillFleti:ernot*whispleNe\TherectnewthisverAged mother of Moreno on the | Ewitness stand yesterday was grilled by the attorneys in her story, and in her effort to lt;1$ something to save her son, was a pitable sight. The oW lady, became entangled and confused in her testimnoy, all of which as well as Moreno’s had to be given through an interpreter. During the inquest here in Corona and at the first day of his trial, Mo-aofstreno maintained much composureidaand seemed little concerned as to•J _the case. Yesterday, however, he became ' more concerned as the evidence was slowly working against him. H took the verdict-without flinching, however, while his aged mother and . kinfolks broke down and'wepttimianctoinbeeistruside in Mr. er i abse ia t heai KanR-deal dent of c
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Fri, Oct 03, 1930
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