Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-19
and yours only. II am discovered and

and yours only. IL I am discovered ana
imprisoned / shall pray that you remain
faithful to your PbNEi,ofE.
DOttavi took the letter. but the DIS
covery OF Penelope's crime cooled MS
feelings toward her. She noticed the
change. tried TO bring him back. and pro-
posed that he and she put carnevaI out
OF the way. D'Ottavi called her an ogress
left her, and declined TO answer her let
ters.
once convinced that she had lost him.
she planned her revenge. Her HUSBAND
went TO Rome for few days. He had
hardly arrived when he received Pehe-
lope's letter confesslng her intimacy with
D'Ottavi and placing the entire blame
FOR her behavior on his shoulders After
telling an ingenious story OF temptations
laid by DOttavi In her way, ana or MS
eventual success in misleading her. sne
closed the. letter in apparent pentence'
IL must suffer for my sin, although II
was forced upon me. When you receive
this letter ! shall be no longer IN 'hls
world. for | am about to take poison
Darling Mario. care for our beloved chill
dren. Tell them that / loved you dearly.
and that | fell through no fault OF my
own. Forgive me, Mario. Goodbye FOR
ever"
HARMLESS FLUID.
All the show Of pentence. however. had
the one object Of melting Carnevall to
avenge his supposed wrongs upon Dot
tavi. Penelope had no more idea OF taking
her own life than of telling the truth
about her relations TO her last lover
Promptly after sending the letter she
swallowed some harmless iiuid from
bottle labelled poison" rejected the as
sistance Of the frightened servants, who
thought she was killing herself. and then
disappeared. so as to leave the impress
sion that she had gone away to die.
although. In fact, she went 10 the home
of an officer in Palermo.
Carneval, meantime. had returned To
his home He heard that his wife had
taken poison and disappeared. He loaded
his revolver. went TO the post-ofice, and,
without word Of explanation. shot
D'Ottav five times. DOttavi fell dead
by his desk. Carneyali went 10 the police
station and Justified his act with the story
told in his wife's letter.
Up TO this time the police knew nothing
of the poisoning Of Jones' When they
searched D'Ottavi's desk, however, they
found the discriminating letter which
Penelope had given him as a guarantee
Of her faithfulness. They found. also
other letters. which proved the falseness
of the story told in the letter received by
Carnevali in Rome.
The search for Penelope was begun. but
was long fruitless. When found IN Paler-
mo. she was living under an assumed
name with a cavalry captain OF the
Italian army. She had not remained
faithful 10 him even for the short time
she had passed under his protection.
He had fought two duels on her account.
and was still nursing the wound from
the last one. He had been lucky enough,
however, to engage a nurse; otherwise he
might have been Penelope's third victim.
for she was tired Of him. and was seek
ing a pretext to leave him for a young
count.
Penelope is described by the Roman dali
lies as wonderfully beautiful. despite her
eleven years Of intrigue and crime. Among
the many witnesses against her and her
husband is Walter Jones. the brother Of
her first husband.
on September 81, the date Of the last
Continental newspapers received in New
York, the result Of the trial In the Frost
none Criminal Court had not been pub
lished. The verdict was not awaited
with any uncertainty however. "a the
universal opinion was that 1t must be
guilty i'm each case.
Carnevali has suffered keenly since he
learned that his wife planned to treat him
as she treated her first husband Pene-
lope has been placid. and apparently in
different to the result Of the trial.