The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-20
THE FADDA MURDER TRIAL.
End of n Celebrated Case I'm Rome.
Rome Corrcspopdenee London Standardl

THE FADDA MUIR DEH TRIAL.
End of a Celebrated Case I'm Rome.
Rome Correspondence London standard.l
The verdict and sentence in this re-
markable case have just been pronounced,
and thus a trial which has lasted for
thirty days and caused an amount of pub
lie interest and excitement almost unpar-
alleled in this country has at length ter
minated. l have already informed you
by telegraph of the main facts of the
verdict and sentence. There remain to
be said only few words to supple
ment the account / have already given.
of this cause celebre. From an early
Hour this morning the Court Of Assi1e
was besieged by an eager crowd. The
proceedings were announced to COM
mence at 10 o'clock but it was II before
the President took his place.
The prisoners had already been in the
dock for more than an hour. The aspect
OF the whole assemblage was grave and
anxious. The prisoners showed a percep-
tible increase of pallor, but no other out
ward sign of emotion. The jury was, as
it has been throughout, earnest and at
tentive, the President serious, collected,
dignified. His summing up was lucid
and impartial, and, indeed, it may be
said, speaking generally, that the official
actors performed their parts in the Last
act Of this tragic drama with dignity
and decorum which were not always
manifest during its preceding stages.
During the charge to the Jury the..silence
was profound, and, as the President di-
rectly addressed them, every juryman
leaned forward simultaneously, as though
moved by one common impulse.
The President, after having summed
up the evidence at great length, instruct
ed the foreman of the jury in what man
ner the verdict was to be communicated
to the court. Nor were his instructions
superAuous, for there were numerous and
complicated counts against each of the
three prisoners. CARDINAL was accused
of voluntary homicide with premedita-
ton, qualified as murder; Rafaella Sara
ceni of being the principal agent in the
aforesaid murder, for that she, after pre-
meditation, did induce Pietro CARDINAL,
by promise to marry him, to commit
the crime, and did furnish him with the
means Of going to Rome for the purpose
of accomplishing it; Antonietta Carrozza
of being an accessory before the fact. In
delivering the verdict, these several ac-
clsations in all their technical minute
ness were to be clearly rehearsed,
and after each one the finding Of
the jury was to be conveyed
by the utterance of "Si" or mo-"
the former meaning that the prisoner
was found guilty on that count, the hat
ter not guilty. Before the jury retired
to consider the verdict, the prisoners
were led out of the hail, the man being
handcuffed, as he has been each day, the
women unbound, between two car
bineers Public opinion inclined to the
supposition that the jury would take a
long time to consider their verdict, and
some persons even predicted that they
would net be able to agree ut all. Also,
the great majority of the very many in
dividuals of different classes with whom
| have spoken on the subject confidently
expected that Raffaefla Saraceni would
he acquitted, while they one and all be-
lieved her, nevertheless, to be guilty.
The death-like silence which had at
tended the Presidents final speech gave
way, on the retirement of the jury, to a
buzz of excited conversation. But the
murmur as yet was not loud one. The
tension of mems minds was still too
great. Three-quarters Of an hour elapsed,
which seemed to the waiting spectators
an interminable interval. What must
the time have seemed to that miserable
trio whose fate depended ON the issue!
At length stir, and the magnetic thrill
running through the crowd announced
the return of the jury. The prisoners
were brought in. Cardinali. is deathly
pale, but quiet, the two women listlessly
impassive. The foreman of the Jury
rises, and in an impressive, unaffected
manner, reads out the sentence amid a
silence which, like the Egyptian dark
ness, may be felt.
CARDINAL guilty on all the counts; Raj
faella Saraceni guilty on all the counts,
save that which accuses her of having
made promise Of marrying CARDINAL
her bribe for the crime; Antdnietta Car
rozza guilty Of completely, but with ex.
tenuating circumstances. Then rises up
the Public Prosecutor and demands, in
accordance with such and such Articles
Of the Penal Code, that on Pietro Cardi-
nall be inflicted the punishment of death;
on RaffaelIa Saraceni that Of imprison-
ment With hard labor, for life; on An
tonietta Carrozza imprisonment for a
term to be fixed by the Court. The Presi-
dent announces that the Court will retire
to consider the sentence, and he and his
brother magistrates withdraw. -t.4
And now there appears very strik-
ingly psychological phenomenon, in the
demeanor Of Raffaella Saraceni. Hith-
efto, the general feeling had leaned, If
not to sympathy, at least to compassion
in her case. All the unfavorable circum.
stances Of her education and surround
ings have been dwelt on. The fact that
she is a woman barely Is years old. ex-