The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-08
Moody SICILIAN TALES.
"a Country Shows 50 Awful a Record
&c the Scene Of Recent Riots.

n
a'7 NV Strange Murders.
anu -, the New York Press.
- bloodshed have been of late
NO. den of the news from Sicily
|he I'D suffering have lent human in
rue % -be atrocious tale. Yet in the
eI5s' atmosphere of that beautiful
o .S there has lurked from time i'm
l'-'-1 -.isI a faint Of unbridled passion
l'5Ig ,1spairing crime which is the more
inl ~ I as recalled in the light of the
present. 10. : tho not mama of
Ia ~ haautiful bay-"the golden
FaeFiulO vas for years, and is most
que .,;Ii SET with atrocities, like dia-
key cofffn of bones. The villa of
p0Au ~ ran miles out, was even cen
Dl- a., famous for its palace of mon
FlI3 -IIsrs we're to be seen hundreds of
eis' - evquisite workmanship repre-
Il 'd.u12 ,,obaard of combinations of hui
Penn 6rI1rp forms, the bust of lovely
laA a,'' NJ, the torso of a hYena, the waist
oLA 1-l .gined to the head and should
a- Wild boar. the right half of
p frure and the left hand of an
J- I.+,-..s hIent in one whole, and scores
-.--'. - reDulsive. Manv were attrac
leu i i-,g' ali strange and inhuman. They
We |be nIavthings of the noble count,
S va far awav stood the villa of Prince
- afterwards minister at the court
p,Iy-.l,.s,iIIes. In the leafy depths of its
i,os1re grounds a great stone monastery
ros lid peop.ed with wax monks, OF life
Z and clothed in the garments OF their
s. .isr so accurately, so windy, that IN all
& 49, notion they seemed alive. Scattered
s. .tror-b the clOlster and cell these emgleS
E rors 5nuarently engaged in the most I'M
n srr3i OCCUPATIONS and amusements i'm
NJ Unable The prince said 1t was a satire.
AN AWFUL SPECTACLE.
IT, orother direction from Palermo lies
W. Canurin convent, against whose messy
rails here stood for generation the dried
rms of the fathers, who had been liter
NJ NV baked into mummies and preserved
r the Nous gaze of succeeding ages. A
oora Internal spectacle it would be hard
.on.ure. There were hundreds of them.
5rtt these sights were to be seen of all men
s. was reserved for Mr. Edwad D. Baynes,
81 roung officer in the British army, to col
sct uDder the title of 'Slcilian Facts, -"
he most remarkable group or series of
ranses against the laws of God and man
s yer set down in one page of one country.
4 The private history OF noble Slclllan
antilles was not ransacked for material.
be events he narrates came by chance to
personal knowledge. He softened,
Nj a,ber than exaggerated, their malign
5rifcance. when hecondensed his memo
3 uda for that wonderful British maya
sne. the Metropolitan, just sixty years
g0
VI Count Rizzari, the handsome young
eir to noble name and rich estates, was
kqdded to the daughter of the great
81 Duke Of La Bruca, half way between
kyracuse and Catania. The CaYaliere
q knrta of Catanta had been an unsuc-
& tesstul sutton for her hand. On the night
Ii the wedding feast he entered the hall
Ii the castle in mask, and mingling with
be dancers excited remark by his curl
Us antics. Being requested to unmask
81 II the SUPPER hour he signitied by signs
s shat he would unmask only to the bride
room and thus inveigling the latter to a
y fejired nook he stabbed him 10 the heart.
leaving the bleeding corpse the cavaliere
81 flg.eI once more with the throng of
EerrymaBers, and announced her bereave-
Sd BENT to the widowed bride by suddenly
s cropping from behind a wreath of cypress
d her couture of orange blossoms. The
hya.iere escaped unframed and lived to
good old age in Vienna, the object of
is lender affections whitening quickly to
& b tomb.
THE CRIME OF CANTARELLO.
In the year 1916 Southern Europe was
a. 2rolsed by the discovery that gentle
pan of Trieste aud his wife had been
# Kidnapped under the pretext of being
aIed to the bedside of sick child, and
+ ad been chained in the charnel vault OF
private chapel on the estate of the
fatel.e, near Messina. Their abductor
as Don Gaetano Cantarello, of Messina,
DO had been the valet of the Marchese
oS.a at the time of the great earthquake
~, which laid that city in ruins and
lred her under the walls of her own
ouSe. What particular passion of this
epu had been baked by his victims had
# er been revealed. Visitors to the
l> LapeI heard groans apparently issuing
piren,ly from its massive walls, and
81 re Jnan once mother was heard
Jug babe to sleep. Cantarello was
en- IN the neighbOrhOod for months
XXI uncut arOuSing suspicion One
ei4ng Young son of the Zatella went
< steep IN the course of the service
ii
d --eaJ cloak open d secret door in the
ancey and disappear into a gloomy re.
Ss' Inc youth drew his sword and lay
want, when Cantarello emerged, his
-s.4eas In the chapel was demanded, a
suy IoIoWed and he was run through
'.1 MS uylng breath he besOught his
6 a5u 10 throw away the key of the
A. 10. uoor and never seek to penetrate
ny S'ery. His vengeance lived after
a.u, "nen TWO weeks later the secret
g' was forced and the pathway his feet
so worn down the stairs of the chance
- 5,l I9us since walled up, was retraced
oed1 bodies of his victims were found
Deao OF straw chained to each Other
~ .ue wall, starved to death. Be
IS f, r. .ueH lay the form of a famisheC
ID, l1' .Aat mad never seen the light 0.
IA ,su. III mat bode of wretchedness Can
e C'. AZ Ado been accustomed to visit anC
o,r ,IeA ana gloat over their agonies
& 4 - f,1l ue uled their food supply was shu
Il his THUMB WAS PARED OFF.
andrea Calauo was a Young priest VIII,
'-l51 across the way from the coun
S tomato in Catania. The coun
- s4s. .1ed to the priests superiors o
rs-s lod'ous conduct with ribald yisi
T, N. tne other sex. The priest swor,
rd - ,o ( Jhe 'count for thus barring hi
r ,o t5ecles5Iastical preferment, and at
TIM. l.As OF vain effort he succeeded in
r.7- ADMISSION to the San Donat,
' r, uIs2lised as an aged fortun,
glqNe Andrea's artful tongue s,
u l4e counts young daughte
Nm , ,ii mat he was allowed to re
AS pra.it5 night under their protection
end under bed in their apart
md ,b. Il The dead watches he rose
M n, T5 ; count Dedchamber. strangleC
8oFe az '' sieep, and when the rcountes
~ .ue sound of her diving bus