Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-03
THE ITALIAN WAY.
A Roman Newspaper Editor Assassi-
mated fn his Printing once.
F,or,a fFeb- los Cosra=pondeDcs Of the London

mated i'm his Printing ONCE.
Rome (Feb. 10y Correspondence Of the London
News.
While Rome was last night enjoying her
first genuine experience Of carnival, a hOr-
rible crime was perpetTated on one Of the
most prominent If her citizens. Ratiaele
Sonz0gnO, at twenty minutes past eight
8 O'Clock, was sitting alone at his desk, in
the printing office of the ultra democratic
journal, the CGDtGIe, Of which he was pro
prietOr and editor Suddenly his employees
heard sounds Of struggling in the room
an upper Oue-in which he was at work,
and one Of them, Luigi Maracci by name,
rushing up stairs, stopped man trying to
disengage himself frOmsthe grasp Of Son
zognO, who cried out: "Luigi, Luigi, he
has murdered me- In the act Of uttering
these words, SOnzognC fell a bleeding
corpse to the ground, while NJ. Maracci,
seizing the fugitive by the throat, stopped
his flight. The man, a tall athlete, was
proving too much for Luigi; but he was
now assisted by his fellOw-wOrkmen, one
of whom. holding The murderer back,
though still struggling forward, finally
brought him TO a stand on the doorway,
where further assistance arrived.
The carbineers tyok him into custody
and conducted him TO prison. By this
time the street was filled and the house
besieged BY a dense crowd, some Of whom,
pushing up stairs, found SOnZOgnO breath
inc his last, with four severe wounds, two
in the breast, one on the shoulder, and one
on the head. Lifted up and carried in the
arms Of the printers foreman, he expired
without saving a word. A dagger stick
inc in the breast wound, fell to the ground
as the murdered man was being borne
along. Il was nearly a foot long, two
edged, with a sharp point, and handle Of
black wood. The assassia, said TO be a
carpenter. must have known his habits in
timately, as he chose the hour and place
where he was always to be found alone
and intent on work. He must have dealt
the fatal blow while his victim was sitting
at the desk and this explains the wound
on the forehead. followed by the two others
on the breast. SOnzognO must have reCeiv-
ed The shoulder wound while struggling
with his assailant toward the door. The
motive for the crime remains yet mys-
terry.
Some accounts suggest private yindict-
iveness, others public resentment-the lat
ter limiting darkly at the OppOrtune extinc-
ton of an intrepid opponent OF political
and sacerdOtal serfdOm. One TACT ali are
agreed upon, that it was no unpractised
hand, but that Of a trained and profess
ional assassin, who dealt the blow.
The SonzOgnO family Of Milan IS known
throughout Italy for their printing estab-
lishment, which for more than fifty years
has enriched the kingdom with excellent
publications, scientific and literary,
Bafaele Sonzogn0 and Edward, his
brother. who resides in Milan, were the
directors Of the establishment. In 1859
Raffaele acted as a liberal. After the re-
turn of the Austriaus and their occupation
of Milan he was editor Of the GGgettG di
lljIgpO. then an official Austrian journal,
now a Radical one. After 1857, when
IOmbardv was liberated, no one mention
ed Raffaele SOnZOgnO-a silence which Ia
yored him as a journalist. But after Men
ana the Menabrea Ministry prosecuted the
bOt-beaded Publicists Of LOmbardy, and
made them celebrated in the process. Lib
Grated from prison, they were, by a spirit
of reaction, sent to Parliament, and so the
Chamber was inundated by men who were
new and unknown until that time, viz,
Raffaele SOnzognO, Billia, GhosiOs, and
CavaIotti (the last a good dramatic poet),
all of them wild and head-strOng Republi-
cans. It was then that in the Gagstta,
which has served every Government Of It
aly from 1913 to 1866, Enrico Aontazo
gave up to Carlo PancraziO, Director Of the
Gazetfd d FItalid, a letter Of Rataele's with
the stamp Of the "IHiperidi and Royal Gd-
zefte of Milan greatly compromising that
qentleman's fame and reputation. An out
| crv was raised at having in Parliament an
Austrian sympathizer, masked as RePu6-
Iican. who had dared to approve in the MI
an Gazette the public flagellatiOn OF the
| Lombard matrOns b. the Austrian Govern
ment. By the pressure Of public opinion
| Raffaele was forced to quit Parliament, and
his constituents took good care not TO re
| elect him. Raffaele DOW began TO Writt
} more violently against the Savoy dynasty