The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-21 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY ROMANCE.

The London correepondeot of the Belfast Now
Letter vouches for the truth of the following somewhat
remarkable narrative :—A short time since an old
lady, living in one of the small streets leading out of
Albanystreet, Roseate-park, close to what was once
the Colosseum, entered the shop of Mr.—, a poulterer
in the neighbourhood, and purchased a chicken. The
tradesman was attentive to her, as such people ought to
be, and the lady became s customer, always coming to
the shop and giving her own orders? She appeared to be
very old, but to have all her faculties about her. On
Saturday e ening she came when the poulterer
happened to be very busy. She said she wished to
s to him, and he ached her to walk into
t little parlour behind the shop, and he would
come to her the moment he was disengaged. In the
parlour she net the daughter of the poulterer, and,
miter some conversation, in the course of which she
remarked that the young girl looked ill, aol required
a change of .it, she prodneed a parcel, tl.d up in paper, '
and said "Give this to your father, as be is busy and
cannot come, and I cannot wait. I wish him to take
you away for a little change, and here is something that
will enable him to do so." She placed the yawl in the
girl's hand, and told her to look it up in a cupbcerd to
which Me pointed. The girl did so, and thought no
more of the matter ; but when, some hours subsequently,
the shop was closed, and her father came into the little
perlour to get his supper, she produced the parcel, and
gave the inemagi by which it was accompanied. The
poulterer laughed as he untied it ; but to his amaze-
ment, the parcel was found to consist of banknotes and
gold to the amount of £l,OOO. Them was also is it
an antique gold watch and chain. The next day Ur.
hurried round to his customer to thank her, when
she desired him to take his daughter out of town for a
few days, and on their return to inform her of their
arrival. This, of course, was done. A day or two after
their return, she called at the shop of Mr. —,
and said she wished him to some to her house to lea,
assompanied by his daughter. As they were &boot to
leave, after partaking of her hospitality. she said to Mr.
—, "I wish you particularly in cell upon me to-morrow
rooming, and bring with you two respeotable persons
soon whom you can rely." The next morning Mr.
attended, sosompanied by the carats of the parish and
a neighbour. The old lady then said that she was
upwards of 90 years of age, and had no relative living
but a amain, an attorney, who, she alleged, had not
treated her well, and by whom, she said, she had lost
00.000. She added that she had mono in Consols
still left and that, as she felt that she would not live
long, and wee resolved that the attorney should not get
anything belonging to her, she asked Mr. —to
attend, with two witnesses, in order that she 'skim
transfer to him, for his own alteolete see, the £25000
to which Me referred. She added that she knew very
well what she was about, ant that by giving him thy
money while she was alive, instead of beinaMhing it to
him at her death, he would be caved the payment of
legacy duty to the West of £l,OOO. This announce-
ment appeared to be of so mg singular • ltallar• that
the elergymaz very primmer that • solicitor
should be t for. Tim 5a of ild
tsr eanie accordingly,
and the transfer was duly slatted. The old Idy's
presentiment of appromeing diseolutios proved to be
correct, and she died a few weeks after =eking this
singular dispoeition of her property. It seems that
b fire bar death she bed intended to give the mosey to
a abaraist. with whom she need to deal,but that ha had
offended her by some inattention to her wishse. The
uswel of this story (of the enbetsolisi seesecof which
Misr* me be no Might whatever) is that "os err
webs, sal may ',midair aidi • deli 'mud."

SENSATIONAL canna.

We take the following particulate of two extra.
ordinary crimes from a Florence Wear. A Capuchin
friar, known in religion by the name of Father Itmansa,
has just been 000derened by the Court of Ageless at
Brescia to imprisonment for twelve years, with hard
labour, for a murderous assault spas • young girl- The
victim was a rod buxom country wench, the hand-
maiden of • priest with whom our frier stood ots berms
of especial intimasicy, and • young person of irreproach-
able ammeter, according to the general testimony of
the !neighbourhood. In the inures of his frequent visite
to the bones of his friend, to whom be was asowatouted
to reader occasional sesistaeos in the discharge of his
sacred functions, Father Emanuel could not fail lob.
struck with the substantial charms of the bella SCIVOita.
He la fate fell over bead and heels in love with her,
and as love without reciprocity, whatever may be said
about freetrade, is without data an atentillgabld
evil, he did not serval* to avow his pudoc, and to
solieit the most unequivocal tokens of • correspooding
sentiment. His fronded that In,, if sot In Mel
conformity with the proseriptice; ofgiskiiagaiga
discipline, is at lead human, sod DOO without
sae precedeate, for love, that nil= the image=
tamp, if history ids true, has not always snared the
=older. lt.tber Emanuel =glade& kb beads, and
took to the twining of true lovers' knots. The 'holiest
products of his garden, the rue=s.uuguyi, baskets
laden with the most lasagna 'harries with the
plumpest figs, were offend at the anise of his un-
hallowed affestion. But the divinity wee obdurate,
sad the eels return vousbasfed for these &Amnon wee
the ociesional flag of • wooden shoe at the eared
loses,, of lb. Towed wovisippor. For some time the
implies friar ben his rebuffs with unexampled meet-
nem He would even -stoop, mot to elude the missile,
but to pick it up, and, after having covered it with
tines, return it to its owner. Bat sem •
rujaeGatepatience has its limits. Oat day Father
Emanuel appeared, as usual, at the parsonage, carrying
In his hand something carefull wrapped la • poet=
handkerchief. Be reamed his emit, and we.
again males& High words Insued, and at last the
friar, maddened with the fury of his eionflioting prima,
gang himself epee the poor girl, and beat her 'avatar
about the bead with • wespos--• Weedier 's iron—
whisk he had brought with him. The woman indicted
were at diet believed to be motial, hat, happily for the
victim sad for her enrol umailaat, this was na the
case, although it is said that the girl will remain dis-
figured for the rest of ber days. Al the total the friar
pteedad temporary Insanity, the result, he said, of the
violence of his prams. But the offense we brought
home against letra, and the motence of the court in
this degeserseed Italy, where priest and laymen oust
now answer alike for their misdeeds, was as I have
already stated. But the crime of Father Emanuel
sinks into utter issiguillessee when =owed with the
aeries of atrocities laid to the chugs of a certain Dr.
Foltrinelli, whose trial is now in progress before the
Court of Amiss at Milan. The aroused had for 24
years held the ante of inalieci cc...ditto (parish °Moor
or district mediae' °Moor) at Gritynano, a village in
the neighbourhood of Breasts, a province destined to
cat an ugly Agues in my preesnt later. In 1864 the
isounnuoe became dissatisfied with the terriers of Dr.
Feltrinelli, and • Dr. Balvetti was choose in his plass.
Feltrinall protested against this decision, and seems to
have conesived, perhaps not turnaturally,e bitter animosity
against his summer, who, with his wife, a sister, and
five children (the fifth ea yet in antkipation), estab-
lished himself in Gargaaao, and, of course, In virtue of
his oilier, speedily transferred to himself • portion of
the advantages, pecuniary end social, maul shea
monopolised by Um discarded Feltrinelli. In proems
of time, however, the latter ob.alned a similar charge
In the neighbouring village of rituals, where he forth-
with took up his residence, not without great Caton-
tent at the necessity under which he lay of turning his
bask upon • place endeared to his by old associations,
and, as it would appear from the depositions of various ,
oases's@ in the presentees's in no very amiable frame '
of mind towards his suppleOter. This wee in Inns,
1865. In the presiding March • young woman named
Catherine Bertolotti entered Into Dr. lifilvetti's family
In the capacity of • domestic servantthe was rather
strange in her habit., accustomed to leave the house for
boon at a stretch, and returning very ha and exhausted
as if she had been at some distance from the village.
but as her general abstainer was satisfactory, and as
she seemed to have a great affection for the chianti,
the little irregularities were allowed to peal Limpet
unheeded. Before long, however, symptoms of the
moist alarming sharseser began to mantled themselves
In the Reivetti family. All the children were taken
111, Cr met with some mishap. One voided pins and
needles, another showed unequivocal ages of pawning
with copper, • third fell three times into the lake of
Garde, but somehow or other woe never drowned, and
lastly the two youngest children began to feel unwell.
For me the most astonishing feet in all this is the
prodigious vitality displayed by these scions of the
houte of Balyetti, who evidently come of • good stook,
for they are all at present alive and well, in spits of the
terrible ordeals to which they have been exposed.
Pinar, the new doctor came to the resolutioa of throw-
ing up his situation, for it was evident there was DO
pesos for him and his in Oargnano, whither in an evil
hour he had been indorsed to transfer his household
goods. I. the meantime it began to he whispered abroad
that the women Bertolotti was no better than she
should be, that • aloes intimacy existed between her and
Dr. Minoan, whom she was accustomed to meet by
appointment 10 a garden belonging to him, about mia-
way between Gamlen° and Tte. A ausarten oat*
raised, the girl was examined, and the result was •
series of the most wonderful revelations. The girl
confessed that she bad been persuaded by • woman
named Codogni to enter upon the meet intimate relations
with the doctor, and that at his instigation, and with
the inducement of a handsome reward, she had con-
sented to nuke away with every one of bee msstee's
children, according to the elaborate instructions with
which she wet provided for that object. One was to
swallow • daily quantity of pins, at thereto of half a
! pin for each dose another was to be drowned, • third
stifled, • fourth treated with petroleum and sulphate
ef copper; the fifth was yet unborn, but means wire
=Waled by which it was hoped that the mother might
be frightened Into a missarrisge. Ms is • brief and
imperfect summary of • very bog story, but it sales
to explain why Dr. Feltrinelli is tow upon his trial.
The affair excites an extraordinary degree of interest,
which will reach it. height to-morrow, the day fined for
the appeezenee in court of the girl fkrtolotti, the
principal witness for the prosecution. The accused
repels with indignation every one of the charges brought
against him. He admits the existence of • certain
=aunt of irritation on his part against his miccemenl
rival, Dr. Salretti, but denim the slightest connection
with the girl Bertolotti, whose accusation he regards as
too absurd to merit • serious refutation. He asserts
himself lobe the victim of a base conspiracy, the motive
for which be is utterly able to conceive. Bo stands
them., at present. In • few days we shall be in •
better position to judge of is merit*