The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-11 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF TWO DESPERADOES.

A letter from Cuneo, in Piedmont, gives a long account
of the capture of two criminals, It appears that for more
than a year past two brothers, by name Giuseppe and
Michele Enrici, had been the terror of the whole province.
Besides misdeeds in Italy they had committed at
atrocious crime in France, and fear of being given
ap to the justice of that country made them
"Try wary, desperate, and formidable. The attempts to
capture them had been numerous, but always unsuccess-
ful ; they knew the country thoroughly, and the gen
dames were weary of pursuing them. On the 13th of last
month a corporal of gendarmes, named Giovanni Mahler°,
who commanded the station of Chiusa, was returning Iron
a long exploration, when he accidentally learnt that the,
two Enrici had gone towards Villanova, di Mondovi. He
immediately ordered out two patrols to follow them ; one
of these was composed of himself and two gendarmes,
Petronelli and Sgro. It was about half-past ten at night
when the three •men arrived at the village of Branzolo.
They were disguised, and went straight to the Cock Inn,
at the door of which Petronelli stood sentry, while
Mainero and Sgro entered the courtyard. There they
came upon the hostess, and at once asked her if the Enrk.
were in the house. Taken by surprise she stammeringly
admitted the fact. Alarmed by the barking of the
dogs, Michele Enrici chewed himself at the window;
Mainero sprang upon him and dealt him two blows upon
the head with the butt of his revolver. " What are you
about, corporal?" cried the cunning brigand, " I am the
landlord." Mainero, believing him, left him alone, but
had scarcely turned his back when the malefactor fired a
pistol at him, fortunately without effect. Then Sgro fired
at Enrici, who fell to the ground, crying out that he
was killed. Meanwhile a desperate struggle was going on
inside the inn. Mainero and Sgro perceived it, and
Hurried to the room where Giuseppe Enrici and the gen-
darme Petronelli were fighting fiercely. The latter, while
on guard at the street door, had been assailed by Enrici„
who fired two shots at him, missing both times, and then
began a conflict in which the gendarme might have had
the worst of it had not Mainero and Sgro gone to
his assistance. The room was in total darkness,
several shots had been fired, the terrified landlord, who
had crept into a corner, had been unintentionally
wounded, the gendarmes were in danger of wounding
each other. At last Enrici was disabled and made
prisoner, and the gendarmes went to secure his brother
Michele, whom they believed to badly wounded, and that
astute ruffian had disappeared. Reinforcements were
procured, and he was soon afterwards traced to a mill.
Warned of the gendarmes' approach, he jumped out of a
window about ten feet from the ground, and succeeded in
reaching some rugged and precipitous crags, whence the
gendarmes, if they ventured to follow aim up, could easily-
be repelled merely by throwing stones down upon them.
As he stood there, firm and menacing, one of the gen-
darmes levelled his carbine and shot him through the
leg, so that he toppled down headlong from his perch, and
died in a few minutes from loss of blood. His brother was
taken to prison at Mondovi.

Miss Lydia Becker, the secretary of the Manches-
ter National Society for Women's Suffrage, announces that
the "society is satisfied that under the 'Representation of
the People Act,' all women who have paid their rates in
conformity with its provisions are by law entitled to bo
placed on the Parliamentary register. The society is ac-
tively engaged in taking the necessary steps to enable such
women to vote at the next election."

DEATH OF AN OPIT3I EATER IN PRISON. —Mrs.
Constantine, wife of Mr. W. S. Constantine, of Scar-
borough, was on Thursday morning found dead in one of
the cells at the Borough Gaol. She was apprehended on
the previous day on a charge of obtaining £22 by false pre-
tences from the York City and County Banking Com-
pany's branch. It will be remembered that Constantine
was the man recently shot at by his landlord, and the cir-
cumstances in which he has since been placed by the inju•
ries he received may have had something to do with the
conduct of his wife. She was a confirmed opium eater,
and it is supposed her sudden and total deprivation of the
drug acted injuriously upon her.
ACCIDENT TO MR. SWINBURNE, THE POET.
On Friday afternoon the occupants of the reading-room
of the British Museum were startled by hearing a violent
exclamation of pain, followed by a heavy fall on the floor.
It was soon ascertained that Mr. Algernon Swinburne
had fallen from his seat in a strong convulsive fit, and was
violently struggling. He was also bleeding profusely
from a wound on the head. Assistance was instantly
at hand, and the sufferer was held down for a few
minutes, and then removed for air to the passage outside,
under the care of the superintendent of the room. Two
medical men happening to be in the room, they at once
proceeded to ascertain the extent of the injury, but the
only wound was a slanting one on the right temple, im-
mediately over the eye, of about an inch and a half in
length, and down to the bone, from which the blood
flowed freely. In about half an hour Mr. Swinburne bad
recovered sufficient consciousness to be placed in a cab
and taken home. It appears that ho was sitting at the
end of the P—Q avenue, and in falling struck his head
against the iron staple of the ring by which the tables are
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