Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-24
SWEET REVENGE.
Austrian Women-W Hecc1v-
Ing the Reward of Their Brutality

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snG the reward of Their Brutality.
II Is well known that during the revolu,
t;onarv wars in Northern Italy, IN 1915 and
1S4e the Austrian commanders caused
number of aristocratic ladies who had par
ticipated in some patriotic demonstration,
70 be brutaily whipped by Croatlc soldiers
in front of the city jails, and in the pres
ence of large crowds of spectators. mus
in Rrescias the Countess of Ferrarl, a young
married lady of twenty-five, who mad COL
Iected money for the revolutionary volun-
teers, was placed before Military Com
mission of Austrian officers, and, by dlrec-
tion of Lieutenant Field Marshal Nelpperg,
sentenced to receive fifty strokes with the
uerqes. On the same afternoon she was LED
on the Place d'Armes, and, after having
been stripped almost naked, tied 10 q
bench, she received her punishment
at the hands of two stalwart Croats,
who were armed with formidable
lunches of birch rods. Every stroke with
them must have been. intensely painful,
but the Countess did not utter sound OF
complaint. At the twenty-fifth stroke,
however, she tainted, and when her execu-
TONERS had inflicted the full number OF
strokes on her senseless body, she was car
ried back in an almost lifeless condition to
her cell, and thrown on bundle of straw.
She never fully recovered from this terrible
castigation, and died few months after
ward This is only one case OF many.
The fathers, husbands brothers and sons
of these martyred italian ladies formed IN
the year 1850 a secret league for the pur-
pose of melting out punishment to the bru-
tai Austrian commanders who had ordered
their mothers wives and sisters to be chas-
tised in this cruel manner. They resolved
to abide their time, and to pick off the
Austrians whenever an opportunity 70 90
SO presented itself.
ated in Austria by the assassination OF an
Austrian General, in nlyria, by young
| italian nobleman, who thus avenged his
mother, that had been terribly logged by
order of the General. The avenger sue
ceeded in making his escape, and the Aus
trian government did not take pains to OBJ
tain his extradition from the Italian au-
thorities. The other day similar tragedy
took place in the neighborhood of Lay
bach, where Neipperg, the principal actor
in the cruel scene which we have mar
rated above, owned country-seat.-
On the 9th of April last, a we'll
dressed young stranger presented himself
at the chateau and told the servant who
opened the door to him that he desired to
see Count Neipperg. 'The Count is in
the garden. Shall call him?" asked the
servant. NO" replied the young stran-
ger: stake me to the garden, and will see
His Excellency there" The servant con-
Quoted him to the garden, in rather re-
mote part of which they met Neipperg, who
was promenadlng with his daughter, a
young lady of %. The stranger, address
ing Neipperg, said to him: 81 am Count
Ferrari What did you do to my motherY"
Neipperg looked in surprise at him. The
next moment Count Ferrari plunged knife
into his breast, and. despite the frantic at
tempts of the young Countess Neippert,
succeeded in making his escape.