The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

mizzen chains by passing through the
port. Thus we reasoned, thickening
the mystery and blackening the trag
I edy by our conjectures.
They arrived out of the tween
! decks. No discovery had been made.
1 Some of the men had given trouble.
/ The squirting Irishman had pulled off
his coat and threatened to stab the
first man who laid a finger upon him.
He was now in irons, the boatsWain
said in obedience to my orders. Most
of the people had asked to be searched.
and helped the sailors. The few Ital-
/ ians were peculiarly jealous, and very
/ frightened.
Not until next day was the woman
able to see me. She was then. late in
( the morning, brought to my cabin by
the doctor. Istarted, and scarce knew
what to do with her face when
saw her. She had been of light
yellow, not uncomely, the nose
of the Greek sort. the eyes black, and
! bland, and eloquent; and now there
stood before me a young woman as
green as leaf of the ivy. She had
! turned, not bright but a deep green,
/ in the night, and with her black hair
and black eyes and dismal, hanging
face, fixed by some CONFUSION of hor-
ror into sort of twisted cape, was
one of the unpleasantest objects I had
| seen for long while [ babe her sit,
and found to my satisfaction that she
! spoke English very we'll
She said her name was Guilia Ra-
vogli; the dead man had been her
! husband. They had kept an ice and
chocolate shop in Salmon Lane, near
! the Commercial road, and were going
| to Adelaide with their savings at the
/ invitation of a relative who had done
well in their line of business at that
city. She talked as though more
meaning than was in her words lurked
at the back of her tongue, yet while
she spoke she looked me full in the
face-very uncomfortably full. I was
glad to turn my eyes upon the doctor
after a few moments of her counten-
ance. I wanted to know if her hus-
band had committed any offense. She
shrugged and turned up her eyes, and
swore by the Virgin, no.
What is the meaning Of those
words about the vengeance of God?'
asked the doctor.
She shook her head with shud-
der, and replied, I do not understand
what was meant
Tt is Italian said the doctor.
oh! yes, it is Italian she an
swered.
DO you believe that an italian has
committed this murder? asked.
1t was done by somebody in the
ship she answered, shuddering again.
Do you know any of the Italians
in this vessel?'
! None, SIR
Do you know anybody at all In the
ship?' enquired the DOCTOR
"'All are strange; that is, before I
came on board
Are you sure Of that?' said l.
There's big crowd of you, and your
eye might easily miss one and that
one shall prove the murderer
There is no face in this ship that
know said the woman.
II made her repeat the story of the
discovery of the murder; she confirm
ed the steWardess' account, and her ac-
curacy was further illustrated by the
| doctors testimony of the posture of
the corpse when he entered the berth
She said Ravogli had left her on deck
to fetch his pipe; as he did not return
she went below, and when she saw
him dead in the open port she fled to
| the stewardess. All the while she
| looked as though she saw something
behind me. Never We're horror and
| grief more genuine passions than in
that unhappy woman.
There was no satisfaction to be got
| out of her relation and examination.
She begged that her berth might be
changed; [ at once consented, and
ordered the stewardess to clear out a
berth that was used as a sort of store
room, and get the stuff slowed afresh
in the murdered mans cabin when it
should have been cleaned. This berth
was Immediately abreast of the cabin
that had been occupied by Ravolgi.
1.-THE gloom and horror of this muir
der lay upon the ship for some days,
in which time we obtained no clue
nor any shadow of hint as to the as
sassin. Many wished to believe it was
the squirting Irishman, but was told
that he was holly engaged in an ar
gument, thunder-charged with threats,
on Irish politics on the forecastle-
head,-one of the silent amongst his
audience being the boatswain,-at the
time that Ravogli was killed. BY re-
peated observations of the square port
and adjacent chain plate, I convinced
myself that none but male hand had
driven the steel into the mans throat
For days in the 'tween-decks nothing
was talked of but the murder, whilst
suspicion was so lightning-keen
amongst the male emigrants that we
who lived aft, making sure that the
malefactor was either of the steerage
or the 'tween-decks had little doubt
but that in any hour, of some day, and
before long he would be flashed upon
and revealed.
I'VE drove south of the line, and all
meantime had gone quietly. Stay
two natural deaths happened, making
three burial services in as many weeks
I saw little or nothing of Guilia Ra-
vogli as she called herself She stuck
to her cabin and ate there alone; IL