Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-02
from the London Morning Post.l


The Criminal Court of Turin has lately
been occupied with the hearing of case
which has spread cOnsternWlion and shame
through mauy OF the most respectfully
connected families in the SArdimi"R cGPi-
tai. The trial which hMs excited such
sensation in Turin was that OF Don Gurlino
attached, in the capacity of second curater
first to the church OF San Carlo, after
wards TO that OF the Cnrmclite order
Amongst his regular professional duties
were, Of course, those connected wltH the
confessional, and these duties he violated
in ii manner so foul and so ntrocious that
no less than thirty-three young girls would
appear to have frl!rn victims to his sys-
temntic and scientific profigacy Not
more than forty years of age, possessing
sinrulWrlv h IndSomc face and figure, Don
Gurlino combined with the natural Inhu-
encc welded over the mind OF the yonth-
full peniteRt by "a spiritual guide, the intlu-
cnre, not less natural, of his own personal
attractions. The wretch was, it appears,
I iu the habit of accompanying his oral
| temptations with the appliances ana means
| of obscene books and Iascivious prints, to
| heighten and accelerate their effect
! Working on the passions by graduated
scale of literary and pictorial excitement,
| tho curnte of st. Charles and the Car
melites" couId seize for his ends the exact
moment when the unsuSpccting confidence
of girlhuod prepared for him an easy prey.
Don Gurliuo was Mt last detected by tue
very means which he had employed. The
relations of n young creature, one OF his
latest victims, found in her possession an
obscene print, and insisted on her teiling
them from whom she had procured it
The girl refused for some time, but, yield
ing 10 their menances, stHmmercd forth
r,f
that not she alone, but likewise several ut
her young friends, had received from Don
Gurlino immoral books and prints. and
dpbnuchcd bv his arts, had yielded up
their honor to their spiritual guide. The
relations at once communicated the facts
10. and deposited the print with, the dis
trict police magistrate, who lost no time
, in communicating with the higher law
authorities, and these latter Mt once lnstl-
tituted criminal proceedings against the
, priest. Although the trial was conducted
! with closed doors, enough of the evidence
transpired to fill all Turin with horror and
p Indignation. The guilty acts of the crimt-
nal appear to have extended over a term o
\ several years. The fun extent of his de
\ bauchcrirs during all that period cannot
ofcoHrse hensccrtained. OnefdCt. however
:, is beyond all doubt-that on the trial itsel
I thirtv-three young girls bore testimony t
f the adoption towards themselves OF tn
: wicked arts of seduction with which tn
:. criminal stood charged.
: On this overwhelming mass of cvideuc
"a Don Gurlino was found guilty, and sen
l. fenced by the Criminal Court of Turin t
r seven years solitary confinement. TIL
4, term of the sentence will probably b
IF abridged by natural causes. Shame,
At not remorsp, has already worked sue
m fearful ravages ON the prisoner that on tn
nj last day of the trial he was hardly Hu
le longer recognizable.