Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-09
Murder or Countess I'm a Railway Car
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Naples august 10) Correspondence London Times
Every one here has been mortified by the
details of murder which was committed
last Thursday night, IN first-class carriage
of the night train from Rome to Florence,
The victim was the Contessa Amanda Sar-
torres Ribrandi Cattanec da Noyara-a long
name, but you must take it as it is Sepa-
rated from her husband, to which il is nee
essary to allude, she came from Voghera, in
in the north of Italy, to Naples about q
fortnight since, and took lodgings at San
Paola, a village near Nola. Here she was
in the habit of receiving every evening sew
eral officers of q cavalry regiment, among
whom was q Lieutenant Negr1. One even
ing last week the cries of the Countess, IN
a half suffocated tone, were heard beseech-
ing for help, on. which the landlord,
Signor Contieri, went out on the staircase,
fired shot, and met Negrl running down.
He then went to the countess, who con-
fessed she had come to San Paola in order
to see Negri, who had some letters and
papers of hers which he refused to give up;
that after her ''society" had left her that
evening be returned; having sent away the
servants under some excuse and closed the
doors, when he .endeayored to force her to
write letter to her friend stating
that she had committed suicide. What
could have been the motive for this can
only be imagined. On her hesitating to do
| this he snatched a dagger from her hand,
which she carried in self defence, and was
in the act of striking her, when she fled to
another room, followed by her maddened
lover. The dagger was again uplifted, whom
the pistol shot fired by the landlord seemed
10 paralyze him, and he made his escape
In Contiereis apartment she remained all
the night, and Negri returned ask her par
don, insisting also in remaining in another
room. On the next day Wednesday, sew
eral of the officers of the regiment, hearing
of the affair, came to the house to protect
| the Countess, who determined to return to
Voghera the next Thursday last
Two officers and the landlord, Contieri, ae-
companied her as far as Caserta, where
they left her, the Countess refusing their
society any further, adding that she no
longer had any fear. On the train arriving
at Isoletta, the station ON the Roman from
tier the body of the unfortunate woman
was found extended on the door OF the car
riage, revolver at her feet, pistol shot
in her head, and her hands covered With
blood aud cut rs il by glass. More than
this is not known at present. Some assert
they saw Negri get into II third class car
/ rage, ufeSsCu rs n clNlilaU, III tilc Slult
train by which the Countess left, and that
his cap was found near her. II so, he is
suspected of having walked along the
footboard to ler carriage, and of having
shot her through the window. or him
nothing has yet been heard. This horrible
tragedy, which report almost in the same
words that IT is described in all the jour
nails of Naples, has created here an i'm.
mense sensation; in all it's details it is most
revolving, and might furnish another Mrs
Radcliffe with materials for n sensational
romance. A highly-respeciable journal, in
defending Negri against the imputation o
theft, also says there can be no ground iul
the suspicion in the simple fact OF his hav-
ing loved woman so desperately as tC
murder her. ale was not a maUoais S,get
He was well-born, rich, honest, and only
vain" In another passage he Is described
as unfortunate" Thus Il il that crime il
condoned, and that q sympathy with il gen
crates that prevalent sentimental feeling
against capital punishment. Wonderful &c
relate, however, Neapolitan juries have
within the last two months brought in yer
diets in three cases without ''dtie,pia,di cir
costa,,ze." Justice still hesitates; there N,
the Court Of Appeal and the royal mercy t
he invoked. The probabilities are that the
sentences of three heinous murders viii
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