Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-07
CRIME OF A Il xATROE.
She Takes Up With a Circus Rider,
and Hires Him to Murder
Her Husband.

aSSlLcS on tue ililINltNls II OANNfNiOu
ally dramatic in its details, even il
this country of dramatic crime. TIL,
act of accusation" the reading o
which will be the first step in tn,
trial, is not, of course, made public
but the following will be found to an.
ticipate its tenor. In 1871 Signor Gil
ovanni Fadda, then a lieutenant in the
army, was residing at Naples, anG
there he made the acquaintance oil
Signora Raffaella Saraceni, a lady in
good circumstances. Their acquaint-
sRoe ripened into marriage, shortly
after which Lieutenant Fadda, hav.
ing been promoted to the rank of cap.
tain, removed with his wife first to
Cultanisetta, in Sicily, and thence Ia
Rome. This union proved an unhap-
by one as early as their residence at
Unltanisetta, where Captain Fadda
formed suspicious of his wife's fdeli-
ty. while his wife availed herself OF
every pretext to absent herself from
her home, and to reside at Cassano
all Ienio, near her mother These
absences became more frequent and
more prolonged, until a practical sep
a~ration between husband and wife
took place. In fact, Captain Fadda
made a completer restitution to his wife
of everything he had received from
her, and his wife took up her abode
permanently near her mother at Cas-
sano. In 1878 there arrived in that
town the travelling equestrian circus
of Lorenzo CARDINAL, among the chief
performers in which was Pietro Car.
dinali, a mar t~hirty-two years of age.
handsome in appearance, and power
fully built. With this man Signora
Fadda became intimately acquainted,
and openly amOrous relations were
formed between them. CARDINAL, of
the two women with whom he tray-
eled, bad one as his mistress, Enrich
eta Carrozza by name, a female eques-
trian performer, who passed for his
sister, although she had two children
by him the other was Carolina Misur-
accia. a woman of similar character.
The former. CaFFozza, under the pre-
text Of being CARDINALS sister, acted
as internuncia between him and Sig
nora Fadda. Witnesses will be
brought to prove that on various &C.
! easiops CARDINAL and Signora Fadda
talked freely Gf getting rid of the cap
tain even by violent Reans, so as to be
at liberty to marry each oti6p. In
fart. 100 ducats (about e20) was Of
feFed By then to a buffoon of the cir
Gus, one GaFlueeio, ifbe would muir
der Captain Padda but tho bqfoon
declined the operation. 4 few days
afterward CARDINAL Quilted the circus
and came to Rome for the purpose of
accommodating the ground. He called
on CAPTAIN Fadda, who did not know
him, representing himself as a cabinet
maker from Cassspo, and as the bear
er of kind inquiries on tie Fart OF the
Saraceni family. The captain received
hiu q~ourteously, thanked him for his
service, aud gaVe him something to
drink. Having taken an accurate
survey of the captains residence and
its general menage, CARDINAL went to
Corigliano CalabrO, at which the circus
had newly pitched its tent. He re-
NAMED there, however, but a short
time, and toward the close OF Septem-
Der be get out again for Rome in com
pany with a groom of his acquaintance,
who acted as bis servant, and went by
the name of De Luca. CaFigBali gave
ont at C%arigliano that he was going to
Naples to purchase horses, while De
Luca was also going thither to consult
an o%culist. Arrived at Bari, they put
up at a tavern kept by one FoFieo, an
old friend of CARDINAL, and to this
man CARDINAL cOn6dentially revealed
his intrigue with a rich lady separated
from her husband, and even the MUIR
deroas intention of his journey to
Rome. "She has given me" he said
to Forico, "a hundred and twenty
piastres to undertake the killing Of her
husband. / am going to Rome. and
if | find no one to take the job off my
hands, | will do it myself" Before
getting i4to the train at the Bari rail
way station, CARDINAL got a porter to
write at bis dictation 0 letter dated
Rome, and purportipg to be written
by a married Roman lady to Captain
'Fadda, warning him to discontinue bis
visits to her, because her husband.
who had discovered all, would kill her
and the captain too. This letter was
found On tse floor of the room in
which Captain taq91 was murdered,
and was obviously aD artfqi rise to
divert the tack Of justice. Oh ther
arrival in Rome. CARDINAL and
De Luca took lodgings Ia the
Via della Marmorella, a few
PAGES from Fadda's house. A
tel~low-lodgsr, from what he saw dur
ing the day aud overheard during the
night, convinced himself tb4t the two
strangers we're preparing q crime Of
blood. II vas on the FIRST day Of
October, 1878, when ba Luca and
CARDINAL reached Rome, and on that
day they found Captain Fadda vas
out Of town. He was, IN fact. at
Ca%strovillari on furlough. Thereupon
CARDINAL dispatched to Enrichetta
C%aFFozza, his reputed sister, two
kilograms COACHED in obscure slang.
and the woman t~elegTsphed a reply
to them, also ip slang. From those
vaguely worded dispatches lad been
made out a mysterious proposal re.
lating to a person who had left Rome.
who was then at C%astroyillari, and
kgbose return CARDINAL was awaiting.
/ Neaqwbile CARDINAL presented him
self day after 92y at the captain
residence, but the servant left in
charge Ia soldier informed him that
his master bad not yet returned, and
that he wa expecting him every
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