The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

vURDER OF A BAfIIFF By PRINCESS AVALos-l
purder of a young captain of artillery
of plebeian birth named Leone, who had
had the audacity to fall in love with their
only sister.
They had invited the young officer in
the most pressing and friendly manner
to dine with them, and after be mad bro
ken bread with them they took his life
by .stabbing him in the back as he was
about to leave their Villa Rosa palace al
Palermo.
When the case was brought to trial. it
was discovered that the two dukes, mem
bers of the leading clubs of the Siciiianl
capital, were not only members of the
Malta society, but the ri~ngleaders OF a.
gang of titled and lowborn blackmailers
and bandits who for years had been
preying on members OF ltallan soeietV
and on foreign tourists.
Owing to the power of the Malta ana
the prestige possessed by the dukes, it
was found impossible to secure their
conviction at Palermo, and it was net
until the venue of the case was transfer
red to Rome that a verdict of guilty
could be obtained.
In the Maddalena, too, Is confined the
buhe VI ~ - - 0N4
a sentence of ten years hard labor fos
the murder of his wife. The latter was
a famous beauty and the greatest heiress
in southern Italy and bore the name OF
Princess Regina Ayalos.
Orphaned at an early age, Regina was
brought up by her aunt, a woman of in1
credible violence of temper, who. in the
presence of the young girl, shot down
o,I ltl1ad nnA of hnr 70 arm hQf1lffS who
had been guilty of some insoience.
Regina was affianeed to a lieutenant OF
the navy, a brothes of this aunt's hus1
band. On the morning of the wedding
day the bridegroom was found in his|
apartments with his brains blown outi
No explanation of this tragedy was everi
youehsafed. Shortly afterward the print
cess married the Neapoiitan Duke Of Cal
racciola, but the unien was an unhappy
one. Hence when one day the duchess
was poisoned, leaving a will in which
she bequeathed her Immense fortune to-
the husband whom she loathed, suspicious
was aroused against him, especially oni
the discovery that the drug which had
caused her death had been purchased By
him. Tried on a charge of murder. he
was convicted and sentenced to ten
years imprisonment.
Among the ~convicts doing time in the
great German penitentiary at Eberfeld
is Count Schleinitz, son of the statesman
who for well nigh 90 years held the Of
fee of minister of the royal and Imperial
house to old Emperor William.
The young count himself was formerly
a member Of the personal staff of the
late emperor, whom he served snecessiyei
ly as page of honor, as equesry and as
chamberlain. About three years age al
newspaper published in Berlin called The
Independent was seized by the police and
its editor thrown into jail for ~biaekma;fl
of the most ~aagrant kind. During the JUL
dicial investigation it was shown that the
confederate of the editor was Count
Schleinitz, who communicated to the for-
mer the secrets of his relatives and
friends for the purpose Of placing them
in a position to be b~laekmailed. The nom
ey thus extorted was divided equally be-
tween the editor of The independent and
the count.
Arrested in London on an extraditionl
warrant, Schleinitz was brought back tol
Berlin, degraded from his military rank
and condemned to a long term Of impris-
onment at hard labor.