The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-30 00:00:00

A NEAPOLITAN TRAGEDY.

A correspondent of the Pall Ma'l Gazette at :Florence,
n a letter of the 24th, sends the following particulars of
a terrible tragepy which has just occurred at Naples :
" On the 20th inst. Prince Teora, a Neapolitan noble-
man, was returning home from a banquet late at night in
company of one of his friends, Prince Malissena,
to whom he proposed a nocturnal visit to
Vesuvius in order to see the eruption. Malissena,
somewhat startled by the singular proposal, as
well as by the unusually excited state in which his friend
appeared, but attributing it to the effects of drink, ac-
cepted the invitation. The friends thereupon hired an
open cabriolet and drove out of the gates. On a sudden,
however, Prince Teora changed his mind, and insisted
upon returning to Naples. His friend consented, probably
because he deemed it unadvisable to oppose this new
vagary, and perhaps also because he preferred town to
country under the circumstances. So back they went, the
prince proceeding to his stables, at a short distance fromhis
palace ; and after the prince had speken to his coachman,
the two noblemen directed their steps towards Palazzo
Teora, near Porta Siramsana. On a sudden the Prince
left his friend's arm, pounced at one bound on a man who
appeared to be waiting before the palace, and stabbed him
with his dagger, receiving at the same moment, however,
from the attacked individual in one of his eyes a stab of
such violence that the dagger literally passed through
his head, coming out by the back of his neck ; both
fell dead instantaneously. The Prince's victim was ulti-
mately found to be a certain Signor Stettler, son of a Swiss
officer, formerly in the service of the Bourbons. Both
weapons were sword-sticks. The profound mystery in.
which the motives of this horrible event were shrouded
at first is gradually clearing off. The day previous to the
crime the prince had seen the same Signor
Stettler in his wife's box in the theatre of San Carlo.
A letter he had received from a vindictive lady's maid
who had shortly before been dismissed by the Princess,
had already aroused his jealousy, although there
seems to have been not the slightest motive
in reality for it beyond this communication,, of
which the source was, to say the least, suspicious. The
Princess, it is said, (a young lady of the greatest beauty),
enjoys the most unblemished reputation for virtue and
modesty. It appears that the Prince had questioned his
coachman, whose information concerning the direction
which Signor Stettler had taken towards the Prince's
palace confirmed his ill-founded suspicion, and on seeing
him before his door he was no longer able to control him-
self. The whole town attended the funeral of the Prince,
er,' which took place with great pomp and splendour.

Mr. Hepworth Dixon has given notice of the fol-
lowing motion in the London School Board :—" That
mecum shall be provided for physical training, exercise, and
drill in every public elementary school established under
the authority of this BoaTd."

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