The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-22
aEOMAN MYSTERY.
The ROdy OF a Young Girl Found
Packed I'm n Box Sent From

Correspondence OF the London Times.
ROME, Sept. 25.-About the beginning
Of this month a box, measuring metre
in length and fifty centlmetrss in cepth,
and strongly corded, arrived, with other
goods, from Naples. It was directed to
a Francesca Buono. and was put aside,
in accordance with the direction, until
the owner should send or call for it. II
had been noticed for some time that
very offensive and gradually increasing
smell pervaded the warehouse where II
was stored, and finally, on examination
being made, it was ascertained TO come
from this box, from which it was then
observed thick fetid matter was oozihS.
After some deliberat:en the ponce au,
thoritics were communicated with, anu
an order obtained tor the examination ot
the contents. On removing the liz ana
some,superfcial packing they were nor
ritied to behold the almost naked oouy
Of Young woman i'll an advanced a.S'e
of decomposition. 1t was AL h9uu'od
I'D together, the legs bent forward ana
down upon the body, and tho arms cross
ed nam the breast in order to cram the
corpse into the space. 1t was packed ~
with tow and sawdust; thick layer OF
rock salt laid over it, and the inside of
Of the box had been carefully lined to
close the crcvices between the boards.
The body was removed rs speedily as
po.sible to tho dead house at the Campo
Verano the large cemetery outside the
Por,a San Giovanni, where DR., Leonl
made an examination to ascertain the
cause of death. The first thing observed
was long ncision dividing the abdo-
men, and it was then ascertained that
the contents, both OF the abdomen and
the thorax, had been removed and the
cavity filled with salt. Further cIami-
nation proved that there had been no
external marks Of violence, and 1t IL
therefore supposed that the girl must
have been poisoned and the entraiIS with
drawn before the body WAS crushed into
the box to prevent tho cause OF death
from being detected At tho same time
this NAV have been done and the salt
inserted instead with the intention Of
arresting decomposition for as long n
period It. possible. !
Inc body IS thaL q! young SHI VI
about eighteen years OF age, slight IN
f.ure, aud with long chestnut hair; but
as a marked dcGormity has been ascer-
tsined by which one shoulder was evil
IDENTIFY raised above the other, 1t IL sup
posed that neither passion in whatever
phase nor jealousy can have caused
the crime. What amount of
beauty the face may havo pos
ses.ei it Is impos,bly to judge.
sointirelv are the features married. From
the appearance Of the finger nails, which
are long and well tended, she would APP
pear TO have been Of gentle birth, or at
a.v rate not OF s"rvIle condition. The
surgeons arr OF opinion That death was
caused either by poison or sutlocatlon, as
the appearance Of the brain would seem
to show. The lnci,ion along the abdo-
men would seem to have been made by
practiced hand. The police are in full
communication with Naples on the sub
iect, but thus tar nothing has been a'cer.
tanned except that short time back ap.
p}icstion was made by father whose
daughter had myteriously disappeared.