The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-10-29
AnUNCmBACK's REVENGE.
Numbering Two Of the Boys Who
Had Made Fun Of His Deformity.


Had Made Fun Of His DefOrmity.
IRome Correspondence Of the London Times.
In August last great alarm was Gre
ated in the village of Incisa, lear Flor
ence, by the mysterious disappearance of
two children boy. nine years old, on
the morning of the 2lst, and another
boy of eight the following evening. 1t
was supposed that they might have fall
len into the stream where they went to
fish and battle, but no traces of them or
their clothes could be found. All kinds
of exaggerated ideas got ahoat in the
village, more particularly as these were
not the first children who had Suddenly
disappeared, and it was asserted that
there were children killers in the ad-
joining wood. On the 2Oth, while one
of the women of the village was arrang-
ing her hair at the back window of her
room, she heard frightful shrIeks. and
recognized them as coming from Amer
igo Turchi, boy nine years old, and
that they proceeded from the workshop
Of one Carlo Grandi, cart carpenter.
| She ran down into the street and alarm
ed the neighbors, who made for the
workshop, which they found closed, and
the boy crying loudly for help from
within. After vain attempts to get
Grandi to admit them, they burst open
the door, and found him struggling to
force the boy into a hole. He bad cut
the child fearfnllv about the head, and
from his mouth blood was flowing,
caused. as the boy afterward narrated
by wedge Grandi had tried to force in
to his mouth to gag him.
After the man was secured it was oh
served that some of the bricks of the
flooring were loose, and on these being
removed, the first thing seen was a
child's hand. The place was quickly
dug up. and the mutilated bodies of the
two bows who had disappeared ten days
before were discovered; and on the hole
into which GraDdi was trying to force
Amerigo Tnrchi being examined, n
nnmber of other children's bones were
found at the bottom. No sooner was
the thing known than the village be-
came a scene of the widest excitement,
and the authorities had to send off in
hot haste for whatever military and po-
lice there were in the vicinity. and a
sufficient force arrived just in time to
save the wretch from being torn to
pieces by the populace.
It seems that the murderer, Grandi.
was a deformed man of diminutive
stature, high, rounded shoulders, very
large head, npon which there was not a
scrap of hair, and repul~ive features. As
is too often the case in Italy, snch un.
fortune creatures become the object of
open public ridicule. The boys of In
elsa had been in the habit Of teasing
and tormenting Grandi and playing all
kinds of practical jokes ON him, and it
WAS in revenge for this that he had, as
opp ,rtnnity offered, enticed now one and
then another of the ringleaderS INTO his
workshop and there murdered them,
burying them under the heor. Amerigo
Turchi said that Grandi had invited
him into his workshop under the pre-
text of having some fun with the other
boy-; that to accomplish this he was to
hide in the hole Grandi uncovered, but
that Immediately he entered it, Grandi
attempted to strangle him.