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for an asylum" ,"The doctor who came
here with you, replied Madame Flour.
ems, "applied to me for the admission Of
a patient. told him he must first have
certificate of the patients madness,
signed by the director of the establish.
ment, who is the first alenist in Naples.
DR.. Miraglia." " Ah," broke in Miss Yer.
nieri, to whom this name was a revela-
tion, the perfidious plottersl That
cousin of his, whom DIR. Cosimati pre-
sented to me, was DR.. Miraglia, then.
But how could the doctor certify my lu-
nacyH / talk nationally enough. Oh!
the monstersp' {" FiSlta midl behold
my Justification and Madame Flourens
produced the certificate of the alienist.
DIR. Miraglia, the director of the asylum.
Thereupon Miss Vernieri addressed her
self to the task of devising her extrica.
ton from the Flourens asylum. Vigi.
lantly watched, she yet succeeded inget-
ting letter conveyed TO her lover, and
he went straight to work to rescue her
and bring her prosecutors to justice.
He got the Procurator of the King to
send forthwith to the asylum an instruct
ing Judge and a notary These gentle.
men obtained immediate access to the
young lady, and examined her with the
most painstaking minuteness, putting
questions of every kind, laying traps for
her, and taking down her answers She
came out of the ordeal triumphantly, and
the result was the immediate order from
the Procuratore del Re for her release,
and criminal proceedings were at once
taken against Dr. Cosimati, the widow
Vernieri and DR.. Miraglia No sooner
set at liberty than Miss Vernieri fed to
the aunt at whose house she had met her
fdnce Their marriage took place i'm
mediately. ....... ..s. .-...
Meanwhile the conspirators, whose OBJ.
ject it had been to prevent the marriage,
and to invalidate Miss Vernieri's right to
the control of herfortune by making her
out mad, were put upon their trial at
Salerno, They had already taken legal
steps to complete their nefarious design,
when the young lady's release upset
everything and turned them from appel
lants into defendants. The section of
accusation las the Italian phrase goes)
acquitted the mother as the dupe of Cost.
matt. Miraglia was admitted to have
acted with bona fdes, and he, too, was
declared guiltless before the law. The
doctor was fully convicted The Public
Minister demanded, as his sentence, three
years Imprisonment year for each day
during which his victim was immured in
the asylum, and that sentence was pro.
nounced by the Judges. DIR. Cosimati
appealed, and the term of imprisonment
was reduced to one year. Not content
with this remission of the sentence, the
doctor-always, be it remarked, enjoying
provisional liberty--that is, not impris.
Oned at all-applied to the Court of
Cessation; but his plea was rejected.
Then he solicited the Kings mercy; but
Signor Yigliana, late Minister of Justice
refused him that also. The 18th of
March came and with it the Left to power.
The appeal to the Kings mercy was re-
newed, and His Majesty was advised to
grant it. Sentence was commuted to in
Tenement in a prescribed locality from
May to NovemDer-six months, as Fan
fulta puts it, of yilleggiatura. So much
for Italian Justice!