The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-27
MISCELLANY.
ANTONIO T0LD0'S MURDER.
1t Happened In Venice Three Hundre
and Fifty Years Ago.

1t Happened In Venice Three Hundred
and Fifty Years Ago.
In the year 1925, Lorenzo Manelli, an
officer in the Inquisltion of Venice, was
walking dark night, close upon the
hour Of H. through one of the narrow
streets of Venice, when he at some dis.
tance saw what appeared to be meeting
of two men. All he could see in the dark
was two shadows, the one fell,
UTrER1NG A uEART.REND1NG SHREK,
and the other dartcd away quickly and
disappeared. The officer ran to the spot
and found the bleeding.form of a richly.
dressed man lying prone on the grosnd.
He was stabbed to the heart and the
blood vas yelling copiously from the
wound. The officer saw that on the dy-
ing mans face there was great eager.
ness to communicate something to him,
and thinking that ne might obtain clew
to the murderer, he bent over the bleed.
ing form to catch the murdered mans
dying words.
"Zioba!' he gasped, 'Zieba!''
There was a bitterness in the tone
with which he murmured the word that
was so impressive.
''The drawings! the drawings!' he
added, breathing with much difficulty.
These were the last words he spoke-his
eyes became CLASSY he was dead.
The body was soon afterwards identi-
fled rs Senior Antonio Toldo, the richest
jeweler in venice. The magnificent gold
watch and chain and well.filled purse
found upon it attested very clearly that
revenge and not. cupidity prompted the
deed. Toldo's wife was reputed to be the
most beautiful woman in Venice, as she
was one of the most accomplished. She
appeared before the Council of Safety in
deep mourning, bathed in tears, and the
very picture Of woe.
'Oh, my dear, dear husband-murder.
ed so cruelly!" she exclaimed with har
rowing accents, and on her knees begged
the Council to make the strictest and the
most searching inquiry into all the cir.
cumstances. At the same time she offer.
ed one-half of her immense fortune for
the detection Of the assassin.
This was great incentive to the off,
GERS Of the Inquisitlon, and they went
hard to work. One night Maneli hap.
pened to stray into cafe much frequent.
ed by students. In one corner a group
of young students were talking bolster.
ously, and he heard one Of them accost
another by the name Of Zioba. He was a
tall young man Of twenty, of exceeding
beauty Of person. He was arrested, al.
though he stout1y denied all knowledge
Of the murder. His premises were care.
fully searched, and, sure enough, some
drawings were found. Here were two re.
markable circumstances already. His
name was Zioba. and he possessed draw.
lngs. But what was even more remark.
able, was the character Of these drawings.
They all represented q nude woman OF
SURPRISING beauty, and whose should the
features be but those of Norma Lucrezia
Toldo, the jewelers. widow.
Zioba was taken before the Council Of
Safety and confronted with her, but both
acted as though they had never seen one
another before. s. Monns Lucrezia appear.
ed still terribly agitated by the death of
her husband, and profoundly grieved
~ the inability Of the police to clear the
mystery:
"Ah!'' she cried, when confronted
with Zioba, this poor boy did not kin
my husband-the murderer. will never be
found!' ~' ~
And she burst into. = wild food of
weeping.
Zloba WAS thea examinedha alone. He
was asked to explain the possession Of
these drawings, and said the woman whom
he had drawn-for he was painter-was
not the jewelers. widow, but Young Girl.
Mattea Carmeri, the daughter Of his tail.
or, who had sat to him as a model of W..
nus. Mattea was called, and it was found
that her features certainly resembled
those of Norma Lucrezia, but not suffi.
GENTLY, however, to convince the Coun.
Gil that the drawings represented her
Mattea swore that she had sat to him as
model.
Zioba called several of his fellow stu.
dents with whom he had been on the
night on which the murder occurred,
They testified that Zioba was with them
until O'Clock in the, morning, but that
about IL he left for two or three minutes.
and returned somewhat excited. But AZ
they had all been drinking wine thew did
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