The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-03-07
DEADLY ITALIAN DUEL.
Brilliant Author and Statesman
Killed on the Field of Honor.
WAS oRIsPTs BITTER OPPONENT.

Signor Cavallottl Brought the Charge
ofTrafllcklng in Decorations Against
the Ex-Premier, and Relentlessly
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
Di Venezia. The encounter was the
outcome of a press polemic in the col
umns 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 Signor
Cavallott received a thrust in the
throat that severed his jugular. The
doctors and his seconds carried him to
Zellino and laid him on a bed in the
residence of the Countess Cellaro.
Tracheotomy was performed, and arti-
fetal breathing attempted, but all ef-
forts were useless. Signor Cavallotti
did not receive a scratch.
Signor Cavallotti made his will i'm
medlately before the duel, which was
the 92d he had fought. The body will
be embalmed and lie in state at his
residence.
Though political opponents, Signor
Vavallotti 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 a 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-
uee Cavallotti, who was a member Of
a family originally Venetian, was born
at Milan on Nov. 6, 1912 At the age
of IS, having become already noted for
tria, he threw himself with ardor as a
writer and a 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 signalized 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
a lifelong opponent of Signor 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 Crispi 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 a 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 it would not be there
except for a cash consideration, he
| prosecuted his inquiries until he felt
warranted in making the public de-
claration that Signor Crispi, the pre-
mier of that day, was guilty of an il
| licit trafIicking in decorations. Not
long after he published a pamphlet
against Crlspl repeating this charge
and adding the charge of bribery in the
| fifth district of Rome, where the pre-
mier had defeated the Sicilian Socialist
| Giuseppe de Felice Giuffrida He even
| gave notice in the chamber of a mo-
| tion to annul the election. When the
matter came up Crspi fatty declined
to make any statement as to the quar-.
| rel, and the chamber sustained his ac.
ton.
| Signor CaYallotti 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 denunciatioI
| of Crispi to the criminal authorities hi
| asked for the examination of the Mar
quis di Rudini and Signor Berti, secre
tary of the department of decorations
as witnesses in support Of his charges
as touching Cornelius Herr, Panama
canal lobbyist. These proceedings will
various notifications, were continued
until the court of cessation recent!
transferred the whole matter to par
lament. Pending this decision, how
ever, Signor Cavallotti proposed tn
impeachment of Signor Crispi, thel
fallen from power, for the disasters IL
the Abyssinian campaign. To the las
he relentlessly pursued Crispi, and tn
latter, in the death of his brilliant an,
fearless adversary, will probably Sc
the end of the long campaign agains
him.
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