, 1877-07-15
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
4 Maid Of Athens Shoots Her Seducer
md Is Acquitted.
Petofl, the Great Hungarian Poet-.-Tht
Pope's Presents.
Capt. Hartstane and Queen Victoria
Gen. Grant and British Oere-
monial,

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A'RT1yED MAID OF ATHENS;
I EEg!lsa paper
/ At the session Of the last Court Of As6ize q
Athens there was tried case which has e1cite
much attention in the Grecian capital. Th
prisoner, Phottna Canavatsaglon, is the daugh
ter OF an infantry Captain, and resides will
him, her mother, two brothers, and three sisters
She is woman Of 26, striknslr beautiful
though her features were worn by sorrow; tail
shapely, and graceful, with regular counter
ance, grave and intelligent; clear blue eyes ant
heavy golden hair thrown back aud worn in twt
massive braids. She wore black dress ant
| black gloves, and fashionable hat with thick
| half-yeil.
The indictment against her charged that or
the 18th OF March, as the infantry Captain,
Christos Bozzaris, was walking on the publie
square listening to the music, PhDtna approach
cd him, and when at adistauce of some six feet
| drew pistol and fred on him, shooting him
through the left shoulder; then threw the
weapon on the ground at his feet, crying
| s'Coward!'' the police seized her, and she said
frankly that she had lett the house, armed with
her brotllcr's pistol, with the deliberate intention
| OF seeking out Bozzaris, her betrayer, and kill
ing him. She had been acquainted with him,
/ since October, 1873, but it was not until June,
! 1874, that their relations became intimate.
! kale Dinitrion-saW her In tears endeaV-
| oring to follow her lover, who essayed
| to calm her, promising that he would go and
explain everything to her parents. Some days
after he set out for LAMA, not returning till
November. 1879, when he renewed his former
relations OF intimacy with the girl, who becatne
cuceinte and III due course was secretly deliver
cd of q child, that was consigned to the found
ling asylum. Previous to its birth she warned
her lover that her condition must soon be 1n:t1e
In rArfnt9 EslT
her, but he continued to put her otf with re-
EeaCed promises; told her that she was Ills auds
be was hers Alone and that he would marry her
so soon as he could obtain the consent of his
family. The girls father entered complaint
against Bozzaris at the Ministry of War, but
uuthiug came OF it. Then the scducer married
another woman, and his victim, rendered
desperate, took the aVenging OF her honor into
her own hands.
Bozza1,s showed up such q wretched cad that
the audience sigIi1cd repeatedly its disapprp-
bation during his examination. He even went
SO far as to claim damages for his wound and
the scandal created by the shooting, but the
Court indignantly refused to allow him to main
tain civil action. One of his replies was us
follows:
tit has been generally said that ain the
cause OF the ruin Of this woman, and that |
promised to marry her never gave my word
neither to her nor her family. It may be that
said something sympathetic to her; it is as
equally possible that Ill moment Of weakness
| may have said something which the prisoner
may have construed into promise OF ,narriage-"
Question-s' We're you intimate with her!''
Answer-"Yes: have even understood that
she had child the paternity OF which in one of
her letters her mother attributed to tne.n
Another infautry officer, recounliny his c1pc-
rienee Of the nanlesake OF the immortal Boz
zaris, said:
'Capt. Canaratsagfon charged me to find
Bozzaris, and to say that his daughter had given
birth to q child with whose paternity Bozzurls
was not unacquaintcl. Bozzaris denied having
entertained any relations whatever with the
prisoner. We then made inquiries antl found
two women who had seen her in company with
him crying bitterly aud saving, In my condi-
ton it would be better for you to kill Inc than
tn leave me thus'; whcrcupuh he said to them,
Take tler away and get lIcr to keep quiet To-
morrow will ask her parents for her hand in
marriage This VIC informed Capt. Bozxaris of,
but 11c persisted in his denials, and even inti- |
mated that he regarded Photiha as a woman OF !
1UUse moralS.'f
The Attorney General, Aristidcs ECONOMICS,
consented to-evcn urgel-an actiuttal, a;ll the
jury rendered vcrtliyt Ut IS (snilly,' but with
this addition, which, under the Greek code,
made the imposition OF penalty impossible: !
- The prisoner is proven to have eommittetIf
the act cllargcd when i'll u state OF mental COLI
fusion for which she was not accountable, hav-
ins. no knowledge us to what she Was doing, It's
results, or her crilninality."
The girl WAS discharged amid general rejoic- !
ings, aud the people in and about the court form
I'd i procession aud conducted her home in tri- !
unph. |