eation or a fractured skull after having been beaten with. the.-rolling
pin. Varga became a suspect when an Elko minister related. that-he. .
had called on him and had spent the night in Elko.the preceding night
and when the persons who had cashed the checksturned them in.and -they
were found to have been payable to Varga, the,entire West Cpast.was
alerted to be on the lockout for him. He was captured in Petalume,
Calif., on March 26, but before he could be returned to Wells, he
flooded the jail cell in Petaluma by stopping up the plumbing and
set fire to the jail in Sacramento to which he was transferred, In
Nevada, he earned a reputation as being one of the most unruly priso-
ners ever, méliciously destrpying jail property and attacking anyone
he could get’ close to, His trial was constantly disrupted by his un-
ruly conduct, but psychiatrists claimed after examining him that his
actions were not those of anyactually insane man, but those of one
who was feigning insanity and he ws convicted by a jury that delib-
erated for only one hour and sentenced to die, He was asphyxiated
at the Nevada State ? risen on June 7, .1949, He was allowed to wear
a death shroud of oe te a white se pity on the back that he had
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and when the persons who had cashed the checksturned them in.and they
were found to have been payable to Varga, the. entire West Cpast. was
alerted to be on the leckout for him. He was captured in Petalume,
Calif., on March 26, but before he could be returned to Wells, he
flooded the jail cell in Petaluma by stopping up the plumbing and
set fire to the jail in Sacramento to which he was transferred, In
Nevada, he earned a reputation as being one of the most unruly priso=
ners ever, maliciously destrpying jail property and attacking anyone
he could get’ close to. His trial was constantly disrupted by his un-
ruly conduct, but psychiatrists claimed after examining him that his
actions were not those of anyactually insane man, but those of one
who was feigning insanity and he ws convicted by a jury that delib-
erated for only one hour and sentenced to die. He. was asphyxiated
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Varga, @ 20~year-old native of Hungary, was allowed entry into the
United States in 191.6 as a displaced person suponsesed by a Lutheran
regigious organization, He had difficulty learning English and was
of such a disposition that he was unable to hold down any job. On
several occasions, he was treated in warious mental hospitals from
which he was always released with a diagnosis of mm being unbalance
but not insane. In March, 198, he quit his job as a dishwasher in
a Eureka, Calif., restaurant and started hitch hiking east. On Mon-
day, March 22, he arrived in Wells, Nevada, and went to the rectory
of the local Presbyterian Chruch where he sought help. ‘The Minister
was out of town, but his 22-year-old wife, Mrs, Billie Rhea Morning,
invited Varga inside and fed him. When he discovered that she was
at the Rectory alone with her infant. son, Varga attacked her with
a rolling pin and, after forcing her to give him two checks each in
the amount of $19.17, he BEMEAXXPXEABSAXKKE tied her to a bed and
tortured her before he brutally raped her, Her husband found her
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VARGA, Laszlo
Varga, a 20~year-old native of Hungary, was allowed entry into the
United States in 196 as a displaced person suponsested by a Lutheran
regigious organization. He had difficulty learning English and was
of such a disposition that he was unable to hold down any job. On
several occasions, he was treated in warlous mental hospitals from
which he was always released with a diagnosis of mm being unbalanced|
but not insane, “In March, 198, he quit his job as a dishwasher in
a Eureka, Calif., restaurant and started hitch hiking east. On Mon-
day, March 22, he arrived in Wells, Nevada, and went to the rectory
of the local Presbyterian Chruch where he sought help. The Minister
was out of town, but his 22-year-old wife, Mrs, Billie Rhea Morning,
invited Varga inside and fed him, When he discovered that she was
at the Rectory alone with her infant.son, Varga attacked her with
a rolling pin and, efter forcing her to give him two checks each in
the amount of $19.17, he BEWEAIIJXHUBSAXKSE tied her to a bed and
tortured her before he brutally raped her, Her husband found her
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of the local Presbyterian Chruch fi) Minister
wife,
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