Evening journal., 1891-03-27
AT THE PISTOL S POINT.
The Sensational Wedding of a
Little Italian Girl.
ELEVEN YEARS OLD AND A WIFE

Her Husband Beat Her, Knocked Her
Down and Generally maltreated Her
Until She Ran Away from Home--com
PEELED to Marry by Her Cruel Father.
New YoRE, March o7.-Hardly less re-
markable than the story Of the little Peru.
Wan girl, who claimed to have been
brought here as a slave, Is the startling
charge made by an eleven-year-old Italian
girl. The Brooklyn Society for the Pre-
yention Of Cruelty TO Children has the
child in its charge. She says she was
Francesca Carbone, and that her father
put pistol 60 her head and forced her to
marry fellow countryman. The man
beat her brutally, and she was compelled
20 run away to save her life.
She Was Weeping bitterly.
On Wednesday afternoon the little girl.
dressed in the picturesque dress OF Italy,
wandered along the Eastern Parlzw way, the
fashionable driveway leading to Conev
Island. The occupants Of the passing car
riages noticed that the little one was
weeping bitterly. She seemed to have
lost her way
The attention OF Park Policeman Allen
was called TO the girl. He spoke to her.
but she only talked incoherently ia Italian
and looked piteously at the officer The
girl was taken 70 the Tenth precinct station
house, on Sixth avenue. All through the
night the little Italian girl sobbed and
when Captain Early tried to learn her
name, she tried to make him understand
what she said, and when she found that
she could not she cried bitterly The big
hearted captain was so touched hy the
little girls manner that he at once sent for
an interpreter.
Her Husband Beat Her.
"Where is your homer asked the inter
prefer in Italian.
II don't know just where II is. she said,
but have been driven from IT, My hns-
band beat me SO hrutally that I ran away
from him. Save me from him, won youY''
When the interpreter repeated the girls
words the policemen were astonished, and
Captain Early told the interpreter to fully
question her. She said she was Francesca
Carbone, eleven years old, and her homo
was somewhere on the outskirts Of Brook
lyn. The httle girl was taken to Il. Adams
street police court yesterday morning Her
pretty face and childish sorrow at once
won the sympathy of all in the court room,
and the deepest interest was paid TO her
story as Officer Chohina, OF the Caildren's
society, repeated it in English and she
told 1t IN her native tongue
The Child wlfe's story.
She said that about half year ago her
mother died in their home in a little vii
lage in Italy Five months ago the child
was brought to this country 10 her father.
who lived among a number Of other Ital-
ians in Brooklyn
She had only been here four weeks. when
her father called her to him one nixht and
told her that he had picked out a man to
whom she was TO be married When she
begged him not to force her to marry She
says her father became enraged He said
the groom he had selected was Giovanni
Lariglio Hew a dark faced, low browed,
surly man, and when the child said she
was afraid OF him and would not marry
him her father grasped her and drew
glistening revolver.
He Would Kill Her
III you don't obey me I'll kill your he
shouted, and Francesca says he put the
muzzle Of the revolver against he. temple
and made her promise TO marry I.ariglio.
The next day, she says, she was married to
the man. They went 60 housekeeping next
door 20 her fathers house TAa honey
moon was not over before the groom
knocked her down and kicked hes brutally.
He beat her frequently, and without provo
cation struck her with a club, She says
She appealed to her father and hr refused
to save her, she says, and she triel 10 run
away.
Tied Her to a Bcdpost.
On Tuesday her husband tied her to a
bedpost and went TO work. She finally re-
leased herself and ran away, and wandered
about until she was found by the police
As she ended her story she drew her we'd
ding ring from her dress and threw it on
the iioor. The police are searching for the
father and husband