The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-02-13
IDAHO WORLD.
HURLED INTO A GORGE.

perhaps, Was lils.o VI {" - {
: Dir, who was put to death on the LOU
Of December last, at San Marine, IL
italy, for the murder Of her newborn
babe.
San Marine, it is well known, is an
anomalous little republic in the midst
of the Observation-Disclosures OF the APP
pennies. The hardy inhabitants, wAu
live, as it were, in natural fortress,
exceedingly difficult Of access, have
managed to preserve neutrality-suspicious.
for centuries past. When Ferrara'
Padua and Bologna fell and proud We
nice was compelled to submit to. mo-
narchical rule, little.San Marine proud
" and defantly. kept the Republican
banner aaoat.s Even the aH-grasplng
Napoleon the First had to respect its IN
dependence; and even the unihcation Of
Italy, under King Victor Emanuel, did
not bring about a change in their pollt-
ical condition. = 80 -'-- --'~
With their independence the people
of San Marino have preserved their an
cient, institutions. Their criminal laws
are those of two hundred years ago.
There is very little application for them,
the morals Of the people being excel
lent, and crimes being of rare occur
renee, but those who commit olfenses
against the laws are very severely and
almost barbariousiy punished. A thief
will have his right hand cut off with
out mercy, and murderer will be exc
cuted in a manner which, in our en-
lighteneda age, cannot but be considered
inhuman and shocking.
The mode of execution is as follows:
The culprit, after being convicted of
having taken human life, is b0nnd
hand ana foot. and then carried to the
brink of "a precipice,sa yawning precl-
Dice Of great depth, and hurled into It.
For nearly fifty years no murder
had been committedin San Marmo. So
much the greater then was the horror
of the people of the little Republic
when, on the morning of the 10th Of
November last, they learned that tile
corpse Of a child, which, to all appear
ances, was but a week DID, had been
found, covered with some rubbish, in a
ditch near the Courthouse, with its
throat cnt from ear to ear.
An investigation was at once set on
foot by the Presiding Elder Of the Re
public such is his title, and in the !
course Of a few hours it was discovered
that young girl named Felicita PaIa-
vicini had probably committed the foul
murder, and that the unfortunate and
innocent victim Of the fearful crime
was her own little daughter.
. Felicita was tall, dark-haired and
dark-eyed beauty of twenty-five years.
Her features We're as faultless as one of
those of Raphael: M.donnas, and al- !:
though her parents both Of whom had
died while she was still child, were
very po9r, her hands and feet were as
small as those Of a Duchess. /:
She had no relatives in San Marine.
and at an early age had been sent to
an asylum in the neighboring city of
Rimini, where she had remained till her :,
her. She had then gone to
Rome, where her extraordinary beauty
soon attracted general attention, espe-
Tally. among the numerous artists in ~
he Eternal City, who are always on J,
he lookout for fresh models. By sit n
ing for distinguished scuIptors and =
PAINTERS during the next seven years,
md rigidly outstanding her resources. a. "a,
ne succeeded in accommodating 900 e,
lvres, which she laid by for a rainy II.
lay. Her conduct may not have been o.,
Wholly irreproachable, for great are the
which beset the path which
he followed; still, those who knew her nm
aid she was good girl, and no fault &C. G..
7as found with her. en-
In an evil hour she became acouaint- SUI
i with Roman thief named Tito an
ardinella, who not only seduced her
nd took all her savings from her, but
nplicated her in robbery, for which cei
was semitic the galIeys, and the DO qua
&c, after keeping her in prison for~ sna
veral months, ordered her to leave the
ONE, and sent her back to her native D
IN Marine. cert
On arriving there in September last, ra'a
e was already in an advanced state @ or }
pregnancy, and the authorities were y
ny unwilling to let her again take NJ ante
abode in their midst. They could o1 At
{ help 1t, however, and deserted "a
Fet was assigned to her as place of o. q.
'ldcnce. There the poor woman l..
ca on what scanty provisions few on !, r
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