The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-21 00:00:00

THE STOTJMBRIDGE OBSERVER.

has created here an imtnense seneat ton ; in all ita de-
tail it is inset revolting, and might furnish another
Mrs. Radcliffe with materials for a sensational
romance. A highly-respectable journal, in de-
fending Negri against the imputation of theft,
also says there ran he no ground for the suspicion
in the simple fact of his having loved a woman so
desperately .as tie murder her. "He was not a
mauvais wet. He was well-born, rich, honest, and
only vain." In another passage he is described as
"unfortunate." Thus it is (continues The Times' cor-
respondent) the crime is condoned, and that a sympathy
with it generates that prevalent sentimental feeling
against capital punishment. Wonderful to relate,
however, Neapolitan juries have within the last two
months brought in verdicts in three cases without
"at tenuanti civeostanze." Justice still hesitates ;there
are the Court of Appeal and the Royal mercy to be
invoked. The probabilities are that the sentences of
three heinous murderers will be commuted.
The same Correspondent, writing from Naples the
14th instant, has sent the following additional par-
ticulars :--
Further detallshave come to light with regard to the horrid
tragedy enacte ion the Roman railway last week, with which
supplement the story I have already sent. As to the precise
point where the CJuntess Cattaneo was so crueily murdered,
it to have been between C osino and Aqinno, for
at 3 she was seen to present herself at the window of
the carriage, while at Isoletta, the frontier station, at no
great distance, her lifeless body was found with a shot
in the head and another under the bosom. The pistol,
a revolver, and the cap of the murderer lay at her
feet. Two countrymen who were at wait at a very
early hour in the morning assert they heard the shots,
an, I thus the locality can be determined. Nothing was
heard or know n of the assassin until Friday evening.
when a man with a bare head, clothes tofu and stained
with blood, several teeth knocked out, anti .IE4 three or
iiir wounds on his face, arrived late at St. Maria del Capita
that Is. Capita Antic. His otrange appearance attracted th.
&iteration of two Carabimers, to whom be gave the name of
Carlo Bianchi, and told a story not Atogether satisfactory.
At his request, however, they took him to a hotel, and then
went to inform the police authorities. Meantime the soi-
disont Bianchi entered his room and ordered some vinegar
and water to be brought, but on the return of the servant
the visitor was missing. Ile had thrown himself out of the
window, and was lying dead on the pavement below.
Some officers of the Lancer. of Victor Emmanuel were sent
for, and identified the body as that of Carlo Negri, a lieu-
tenant In that regiment. Ilow he got into the carriage of
the Countess, whether he walked .lotqt the footboard or
managed to introduce huuself at Canna after her friends had
left her at Caserta, perhaps will never be known, nor how he
left the train. It is probable that he precipitated himself
from it while in motion, tin dub solos wounds in his neck
were infiteted apparently wien a Imes hairplu. The friends
of toe unfortunate Countess telegraphed immediately from
N't ghera to the political authorities, requesting that a
" modest " funeral might be given her, and she now
lies buried at Arce, a small place near the railway.
With the mysterious retitions which exitted between
her and Negri, awl w hich led to the catastrophe,
the minim have nothing to do, ami it is of far greater im-
p qtance to inquire what precautions exist on any line of
railway against similar acts of violence. What is there to
prevent any one from being murdered by a resolute amanita,
in the silence and darkness of the 'light, in the corner of a
carriage; or any wowati from being insulted and abused by
some miscreant ; or any one of us from being robbed? S.
long as therein no efficient communicatton between the pa.
oengers and guards every traveller by railway is exposed to
the chances of such disasters. Alto the line of communica-
tion outside the carriages, you may j wise of what melt would
have been in the circumstances I have been descrining, with
the windows closed, and the hand of a powerful man to pre-
vent all access to them. Disasters always forerun and com-
pel remedies, and if this brutal murder should direct the
thoughts of railway directors to the precautionary Ines-
mites so much needed, some good will have resulted from it.

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DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF MINERS.
On Monday a mittal meeting of 5 aith Yorkshire
miners was held at Sheffield. The gathering com-
prised from 4,000 to 5,000 miners, many of whom are
either locked out Or on strike. The president WM Mr.
Moore, of Sheffield, who, as mayor of that town, bad
taken an Active part in trying to bring about a settle-
ment of the disputes in the district by means of arbi-