The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-03-07
DEADLY ITALIAN DUEL
Brilliant Author and Statesman
Killed on the Field Of Honor.
WAS oRIsPIs BITTER OPPONENT.

Signor CavallOtti Brought the Charge
ofTrafiicklnaan Decorations Against
the Ex-Premier, and. Rcleutlessly
Pursued Him.
Rome. March 7.-signor Felice Carlo
Cavalotti, poet, dramatist, publicist,
and the well known Radical member of
the chamber of deputies for Corte-
Olona, was killed here yesterday af-
ternoon in a duel with swords with
Signor Macola, member of the chamber
of deputies and editor of the Gazzetta
ID Venezia. The encounter was the
outcome Of press polemic in the col
unns of the Milan Secolo and the
Gazzetta Di Venezia. 1t took place at
an unfrequented spot outside the Porta
Maggorie.
The first two engagements were with
out result, but in the third Sgnor
Cavallotti received a thrust in the
throat that severed his jugular. The
doctors and his seconds carried him to
Zellino and laid him on bed in the
residence of the Countess CellarO.
Tracheotomy was performed, and arti-
fetal breathing attempted, but all eff
forts were useless. Signor Cavallotti
expired in ten minutes. Signor Macola
did not receive scratch.
SignOr Cavallotu made his will i'm
mediately before the duel. which was
the 32d he had fought. The body will
be embalmed and lie in state at his
residence.
Though political opponents, Signor
Vavalotti and Signor Macola were per-
sonal friends. For this reason their
seconds tried to avoid the duel, but the
matter becoming ridiculous in the pub
lie eyes, the principals decided that
they must fight. The death of Caval-
lotti is great loss to the Radical party.
italian laws regards killing in a duel
as qualified murder" but Sgnor Ma
cola has gone to Venice, unmolested,
under the protection of his parliament
tary prerogative ,.
The news on reaching this city caused
a great sensation. Numerous deputies
and friends hurried to the SPOT, and
there Is universal regret over the
tragic end of Cavallotti.
The late Signor Felice Carlo Eman-
uele Cayallotti, who was a member Of
a family originally Venetian, was born
at M Ian on Nov. 6, 1912. At the age
of 49, having become already noted for
his poetry breathing hatred for Aus
tria, he threw himself with ardor as a
writer and soldier into the struggle
for Italian Independence, taking part
in various expeditions and publishing
in the newspapers of the day articles
and verses whose revolutionary au-
dacity attracted wide attention. Since
that day he has been a most prolific
writer, and his dramas have always at
tracted wide attention.
Often elected to the italian parlia-
ment, his career In the chamber from
time to time was sgnalized by no less
agitation than the publication of his
poetic efforts More than once his
interpretations and his speeches invoked
the parliamentary tempests. He was
lifelong opponent of Sgnor Crispi.
and was glad to be known as one of
the Italian politicians who resisted
with all their energies the tide which,
under the auspices of Crispl, carried
Italy toward Germany.
In 1895, when the Banca Romano
scandal was the sensation of Europe
Signor Cavallotti then leader of the
opposition in the Italian chambers, dis
covered what he called new and most
promising lode. Going through the list
of great and little men entitled to wear
the Grand Cross of the Order of st.
Maurice and Lazare, he came upon the
name of DIR. Cornelius Herr. Rightly
conjecturing that 1t would not be there
except for a cash consideration, he
prosecuted his inquiries until he felt
warranted in making the public de-
claratlon that Signor Crispi the pre-
mier of that day, was guilty of an IL
licit trafficking in decorations. Not
long after he published pamphlet
against Crispi repeating this charge,
and adding the charge4of bribery in the
fifth district Of Rome, where the pre-
mier had defeated the Sicilian Socialist,
Giuseppe de Feiice Giuffrida. He even
gave notice in the chamber of a mo-
ton to annul the election. When the
matter came uD Crspi fatty declined
to make any statement as to the quar-
rel, and the chamber sustained his ac-
ton.
Signor Cavallotti then renewed the
attack in his paper, The Secolo, of Mi
Ian, and announced that he would pre-
fer charges In the courts. This threat
he carried out, and in his denunciation
of Crispi to the criminal authorities he
asked for the examination of the Mar
quis dl T,udini and Sgnor Berti, secre-
tary Of the department of decorations,
as witnesses in support of his charges,
as touching Cornelius Herr, a Panama
canal lobbyist. These proceedings, with
various notifications, were continued
until the court Of cessation recently
transferred the whole matter to par
Lament. Pending this decision, how
ever, Signor Cavallotti proposed the
of Signor Crispi, then
fallen from power, for the disasters in
the Abyssinian campaign. To the last
he relentlessly pursued Crispi, and the
latter in the death of his brilliant and
fearless adversary, will probably see
the end of the long campaign against
him.