Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-14
MURDER CONSPIRACY.

An amazing and sensational story Of
love, intrigue and assassination, in which
the central figure is the beautiful Count
ess Theodolinda Bonmartini, ia to be
unraveled in the criminal courts in
Rome in the course Of the next few
days.
The Countess Linda, as she is known
in Italian society, is to be put on trial
for conspiring with her brother, Signor
Tulio Murri (who is an advocate), Pro-
fessor Secchi (who is declared to be the
lover of the Countess), DR.. Pho Naldi
and a girl named Rosina Benefit (the
mistress of Murri) to bring about the
death of her husband. The story of
the tragedy, as outlined by the prose-
cution, carries one back to the Italy Of
medieval romance. Count Bonmartini,
though high noble of Bologna, was a
man with an unsavory reputation, and
he rented fat in the Via Mazzini, in
Bologna, in which, it is alleged, many
infamous scenes took place. The Count
also bad palace-in Venice, where the
Countess Linda appears to have spent
most of her time. There. she met Pro-
fessor Secchi, and under the influence OF
her husbands neglect, and his numer-
Gus intriques, fell in love with him.
AT the beginning OF September, 1902,
the neighbors of Count Bonmartini in
the Via Mazzini made complaint to the
police that an intolerable odor was COM
ing from the Counts fiat, to which he
was known to have returned FIVE or six
DAYS earlier. The police made an ex-
animation, and then burst open the
door. In pool of blood in the middle
of the luxuriously furnished room lay
the decomposing body of the Count.
He had been stabbed in the throat
Some feminine belor ,ings were found
scattered about the SApartment, and the
dead mans pockets, cash box and bureau
had been riAed. The police formed the
theory that it was the tragic end of the
Counts numerous intrigues. A closer
search resulted in the discovery of some
letters which put different complexion
ON the crime, and caused the police to
interrogate Signor Murri, the father OF
the Countess.
On September 10 Senator Murri's
son, Tullio Murri, was arrested at
Ala, on the Austro-Italian frontier.
He declared himself guilty of the counts
d cath.
Murri had visited the countin the Via
Mazzini, he said, to demonstrate with
him for his brutal treatment OF his Sis
ter the countess. A bitter quarrel fol-
lowed, and the count seized knife and
made a murderous attack on him. In
the scuffle the knife penetrated the
counts throat.
But one of the letters which the police
had found implicated girl named Anna
SAINT angelo, and in due course this girl
was arrested. She confessed that her
real name was Bonetti, and that she had
been living with Murri. She declared
that the count had been murdered by
Muri and young physician named
Naldi.
DR.. Naldi then fell into the clutctes Of
the police. He was found to be in low
water, aud to have q rather doubtful
reputation. The police found him very
pliable, and in few days drew from
him the whole sordid story. Professor
Secchi, be said, was in love with the
countess, and she had plotted with hin
to poison the count by means OF an
injection of curare, which be gave tc
Naldi, together with ahyodermic syringe
The scheme was abandoned, however
and another plot was hatched. Th'
countess, who was then in Venice, OBJ
tanned a wax impression ofthe key to tn
counts fat in Bologna, sent them du
plicate key by the girl Bonetti, and OF
the evening of August 27, 1902, Maid
and Murri let themselves into his apart
ment and hid behind the curtains. Whe
the count entered the fiat Murri dragge
him down, and DR.. Naldi, whose surgi
cal knowledge enabled him to do th
deed without bungling, drove knife in
to the counts throat, killing him IN
stsntly.
Then they disordered the room to Civ
color to the story that was concoetec
strewed some of the girl Bonetti's line
about the apartment, locked the door an
fled. The arrest of the countess followe
and Secchi was taken soon after. .
search of their houses resulted in the III
earthing of mass of correspondent
which, thepoice declare, leaves no proc
wanting as to the share which each tool
IN this revolving md sensational tragedy
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