, 1877-12-25
THE ANTONELLI CASE.
Close Of tho Trial-Thn Court 1tcaeEyes
Judgment. D..

Close OF tho Trial-Thn Court deserves
Judgment.
CprFfspnndeaes EaHaon T1nHsk
lloMs, Dee. 7.-Tho long.oxpeetul and re-
peatc1ly iourncd causu celcbre was yesterday
brought be!oro tho Civil Tribunal, presided over
by SIsnur Pto Teodorani, former mcmter OF
tho italian Government, and attended by two
Judges, Antonio spaLlau! aud Luigi 0ttayt.
Thu plaintiff, Countess Loretta LatubcEt!ni,
was represented by Diego Ta]auI. Deputy. aud
tic oldest ul!yocato In Naples. The coupsel OF
thu defendants 0rceor.o, Angelo, and
Luig! Antonellt, mud the Countasecs RosAlia
acknowledgements aud Fnnucsnttna nortazxo.
li.Dorgnana, c,-heirs Of tho lato Cardinal-waa
Atirano Aln.i, Deputy, aud former President.
OF tho Cha.uher alld former Minister Of Grscs
and Justice, F}orclltihe advocate of tho high
est reputation, aasiated eJ Antonio Dacchetto-
nl, llUHlan 1dTuE2tu.
After fuw words hv tho plaintiffs solicitor,
Curlo Galiut, Slgnor Ta1ani opeue4 tho case by
describing tho public and private career md
character OF ths Cardinal t'iaeoulo Antonelli.
thu, .tateInetss to tho point being that tho
rHclato had boen known fnr variety Ut nu,or-
Gus lntriEuua, md had died IN possession OF
enormous wealth. Tbs bulk Vi this wealth was
by llln togueaehctl to tic defendants, thrcu of
1,s brothers, o!e slater, and ono niece, ,a pro-
vision being lnade foF his natural daughter, tho
Tic plaintiff, Wishing to avoid tho scandal
likey to arise IRON trial, highly. detrimental
to her fathers memory, 81 well ~ to thu Court
last year, usl Gully twcuty-threu days after tho
Cardinals death, addressed letter u tho do
tculanss expressing her desirc to come with
them T. eolnnro.st:o. wa!cl. BY admitting her
necessity Of woundlnK tho feelings Of tue
friends Of tho deceased. and especially Of
thu Pontin, who highly valued his seEYtoes.
As her duplication seInatncl unanswered. the
1{tRkAt
aud Ut tllu interest OF her children, who would
bv reduced to starvation, WIS compelled TO bring
a., acllou aKaiDst tho defendants ou tue 3uth ot
last June. Tbs pleu wzs that ths plsluti1 was
u Intural daughter Ut taEtiull Anl0nelll by
foreign lady, whose name aid oarsou were not
mentioned Ur Iaentonahlc, aud tho proof of this
paternity WAS to be established On Tho te4tlsno-
nY Of Witnesses whosc depuslt!ons had already
been brought before Court, lusurA nemoIis,
an4 of other Wltueascs now III attendance Tbs
counsel tor the lcfen4a objected that this test!
nonY wsA not admissible, ana tue Court bud TO-
day to deal With this prelinfnefY question.
the iust that the Cardinals natural daughter
VIVA horn in 1855, and that matters relating to
her birth must DO settled aeyoElius to tho laws
then iu vlKor.-L e., tv the old Roman and can-
both. ana published in the peutthcais Of Nree-
oEy XVI. Thrso laws, says fesjani, admit the
| testimony OF wltncasc4 tn casrs Of thls nature,
10 contradiction to tho pscstna Italtan Law,
children born in wsdIock, u tne Countess
LanibcEtlnl was, Oh the nlu pfanetple,
s.rater est u quctn nuptin aenunrlant" Siyuor
! Tsjani argued that, although the plaintiff MAS
iswtui ts viz, Il Aaioaa i ps!is1s' aui % ssa sxt til
her mother u her daughter I'LL the day of her
| mothers death, and although she xas married
| - Loretta Matepnt, = Legitimate daughter Of tic
always Known " be : natural daughter of Car.
4lnal AntuuclH: aud her In0t1Is, " It would kA