The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-11
BOLOGNA MURDER
A STRANGE AFFAIR
Count Bounmartine Found Dead
In His Palace
WHOLE FAMILY ACCUSED
erother-In-Iaw of Dead Man Arranses
Elaborate Evidence to Conceal
Crime, But Is Denounced
BY His Father
WHOLE FAMILY ACCUSED
BY PIERRE ROSTER.

Paris, December 1o-In view of the
Italian murders and mysteries from time
to time taking place in the United States
and freely and enormously headed
Malta" and BLACK Hand" the Bologna
Murder Mystery will prove interesting.
The principals In this sensational chapter
in the Italian Book of Crimes are not
sicilians or swarthy faced freebooters
and brigands recruited from the lower or
peasant classes. On the contrary they
belong to the professional or cultured
classes of well-bred society from which
Borgia might claim ancestry. They
comprise an entire family, so cynnically
immoral do they show themselves In their
correspondence and so wholly ruthless In
action. while processing strong family af-
lection, that l recommend them to the
dramatist like Sardou and to the novelist
like Gaboriau
The scenes are now being reviewed in
the magistrates court In Turin. Italian
law is tardy and devious, but 1t is dra-
matte. The story Is as follows: In a
villa close by Bologna resides Professor
Murri, who Is regarded as the greatest
physician In Italy. He is married, and he
has a son called Tullio and a daughter
named Theodolinda, but called Linda. The
professor Is a Freethinker; Tulio is
by way of being a Socialist, and as a So
cialist he was elected a member of the
municipal council of Bologna and SUISSE
quently became its secretary. Linda mar
ried a certain Count Bounmartini the
head of an old family of Padua, and
fairly well off. The count had rented a
place at Bologna, where he has live
since his marriage Public opinion was
under the impression that the count Ill
treated his wife, and she was regarded
In Bolonknese high life" as a suffering
angel Not long after the marriage the
pair decided to live separately, but under
the same roof. in order to avoid open
children. In 1898. however, they agreed
to come together again, owing to the
eonclllatory counsels of the Cardinal
Archbishop of Bologna.
Count Disappears.
Linda had gone in August, 1902, to Venice
with the children. On the afternoon of
from country house where he had been
staying. Nothing further was heard of
him for some days, and Linda telegraphed
from Venice to friends In Rome and other
places asking them If they knew where
he was, and also to her father and
brother.
On September some of the tenants In
the Bounmartini house informed Profess
sor Murri that there was pestilential
odour in IT, and suggested that 1t might
be well to discover If 1t proceeded from
the apartment occupied by his son-in-
law. The professor on this applet tc
the police, and police agents were sent
to break open the door leading into the
apartment of the count. They were ac-
companied by Tullio, as secretary of the
municipal court, for this was legally obli'
gatory. No sooner was the door broken
down than the corpse of the count in 9
state of semi putrefaction was discovered
in the entrance-hall. His death had beer
clearly violent one, for the body was
stabbed In more than twelve places. BY
his side were his umbrella and his travel
ing bag, which seemed to have faller
from his hands. On penetrating into the
room a strange spectacle was disclosed
in the counts bedroom a trunk and q
wardrobe had been broken open. On @
table, before which two chairs had beer
placed there were the remains of a SUI
pper and champagne bottle almos
empty. The bed was disturbed, and on i
was thrown a pail of silk drawers OBJ
viously belonging to woman. On