The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-25
LOVEENDS INATRAGEDY
LOCKED IN BACH OTHERS ARMS,
A COUPLE COURT DEATH.

ana the W oman q sweetheart Lately
From Italy-Bulless Fired Into Both
Their Heads by Sis Bands-An At
lanta Hotel the Scene of the Shoot.
ing
ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. "a In this mo-
ment that l write we are happy. In
an heur we will be no more among the
living. We believe that we will be united
after death, as We are now united in
life. Please bury US in the same coffin.
This is our last request. Bury Us in Oak
land cemetery and plant our grave.
"SELITA AND UMBERTO."
This is the note that was found on a
table near the bed when the chief OF police,
accompanied by the proprietor and crowd
Of startled guests and servants, broke into a
room in the Metropolitan hotel, from whence
had issued the reports Of two pistol shots
this afternoon u few minutes before 3
o'clock. On one of the two beds in the
room lay man and woman clasped in
each Others arms On the white pillow the
warm blood trickled down from the fair
face of the woman aud mingled with that
of the man. On the floor beside the bed
hay the smoking deadly pistol 1t had been
invoked TO unite in death two hearts that
could not be united in the life Of human
Law.
THE WOUNDS.
Physicians were hastily summoned. The
woman had been shot in the left side OF the
head, almost directly in the ear, and the
wound of the man was on the right side Of
the head little below the ear. The deadly
shots had been fired by the man while he
held the woman clasped in bis arms. First
she muzzle OF the weapon was turned to the
head of the woman. 1t trembled in the
band of the man before the ball went crash
ing through on its terrible mission, and on
account of that misgiving of her
lover the life of the woman
weapon was placed to bis own head with
che hot blood Of the woman whom he loved
better than life flowing out upon his very
heart, the hand of the man was steadier,
and his aim true to the death.
TIE ARRIVAL AT THE HOTEL.
About O'Clock this afternoon a man of
about 80, well dressed, of a swarthy counte-
nance, but unusually clear-cut features.
which at once proclaimed him to be of for
eign birth, accompanied by young woman
> clad in a sly lish tan cloak and dark dress,
with a jsunty little travelling CAD that dis
played a profusion Of dark hair, animated
by a pair of steel blue eyes and soft,
creamy skin that could belong TO none but
an italian maiden of the higher class, the
young woman, apparently about Is years
of age, presented himself at the counter of
the Metropolitan hotel. Upon the register
be wrote 10 a good hand, "Umberto Plan
tini and wife" The guest said that he
desired TO be notified in time TO catch the
Central train for Savannah at $50 o'clock,
and the two were assigned to a room for
rest until that time arrived
THE GIRL OF RARE BEAUTY.
There was nothing In the appearance of
the new arrivals to excite suspicion, though
the exceeding beauty of the young girl az
trscted attention as she waited for the as
signment of the room. At glance the pair
would have been taken for bride and groom
by their neat dress and general manner. The
report of the two pistol shots was the only
notice of the tragedy that was disclosed be-
fore the door of the room to which the
couple had been assigned was burst open.
Both were unconscious when the physicians
arrived.
IDENTITY OF THE UNHAPPY COUPLE.
When the note was discovered on the
table an examination OF the clothing
showed that the two were not man and
wife, as they had registered, and il was
later developed that the young woman was
the step-slster CT Piantini, the man who
was identified and who had registered I'M
der his proper name. Piantini was mem
Der of the firm of Piantini & Son of
this city, manufacturers Of mon
uments. He was married and had
lived with his wife on South Pryor street
for five years past About a block distant
on the same street lives the elder Piantini,
the Piantini family being of the educated
and higher class OF Italians aud worth con-
siderable property, with his wife and Miss
Selititia Muegge, her daughter by former
marriage, the young girl shot in the Metro
politan hotel this evening.
THE STORY OF THEIR LOVE.
Umberto Piantini, the con, was the lover
OF the beautiful Selititia before his father
emierated TO this country with him. He
partially forgot her In after years, however,
and married in America, but IN the unfore-
seen course of events the father of the young
man married the mother OF bis youthful
sweetheart about a year ago and came to
this country and to Atlanta TO live. The
old passion was revived, and being recip-
rocated by the warm blooded young
Italian girl the mutual passion was allowed
20 grow to an almost deIirious degree.
though they managed TO keep their love
veiled from the eyes Of both the faithless
husbands wife and from the girls family.
Finally they could bear it no longer. Death
was preferable to such love and they deter
mind TO die. Accordingly they went to
the hotel. it is believed, with hedeliberate
intention Of dying together. This much is
gathered from the incoherent words OF the
young woman to the physicians, and from
the note written by her hand and left on
the table.
REMOVED FROM THE HOTEL.
Late tonight the girl was removed to the
home Of her parents, No. 400 South Pryor
street, and Piantini was taken TO the hos
pital. As already stated the hand of the
man must have trembled when he placed
the pistol TO the head of the girl lying by
his side and the ball did not inflict fatal
wound. When taken out of the hotel
the girl raved madly. begging
not to be taken away from
her lover. Mrs. Piautini, the mother OF the
girl. is highly connected in New York and
Is quite wealthy. She is a sister-in-law of
Katzen Myers, a prominent importer of
New York. When notified of the tragedy
Plaintiffs wife refused to go to the hotel to
see him.
At midnight neither is dead, but both are
unconscious.
Plaintiffs wife had discovered the
amour. and this is supposed to have
hastened the tragedy.
A DIVORCE FOR MRS. DALE