The San Francisco call., 1904-12-04
LOVER DIsPLACEs HUSBAND.

About THIS time Dr. Seccnl AGAIN
came into the Countess life. He had
little difficulty in rekindling the old
fame and soon he held the place that
should have been her husbands. He
was a friend of her brother, Tullio
Murri. who had become a barrister,
and filled the position of a magistrate
and municipal councillor at Bologna. 1t
throws a queer light on Italian society
that this brother, instead of rounding
on Secchi, warmly espoused his cause.
Italian ways are not American ways,
and the fact that Secchi already had a
mistress and was VIGOROUSLY i'm
moral man made no difference to
Tullio.
According to the prosecution, the
three plotted together to get rid of
the Count. Tullio. it is alleged, in
duced his mistress, Rosina Monetti, to
take part in the evil game, and found
another ally in his friend, DR.. Pho
Naldi. who was hard up and willing
to risk his neck for money. Tullio, it
is alleged, conceived the idea of muir
dering the Count by pricking him with
q hypodermic syringe containing
poison with which certain tribes of In
dams tip their arrows when they go
on the warpath, but Secchi argued
that it could not be depended on to do
its fatal work quickly enough and
proved IL Dy dIl experiment. VI WiiASh
a lamb was the victim.
ELIMINATION OF PLOT.
When the Count was discovered
dead in his palace there were no less
than thirteen wounds in his body.
Some feminine finery was scattered on
the bed, there was the bloody imprint
of a woman's hand on the wall and a
letter in a womans handwriting, max
ing an appointment with him, was
found in the room. That letter, the
police declare, was written by Rosina
Bonetti, at Tullio's dictation, and with
the feminine apparel had been placed
in the Counts room to throw them off
the scent by creating the impression
that his murder was the sequel of a
vulgar intrigue with an abandoned
woman in league with thieves and cut
thrOats.
Tullio and Naldi are accused of ac-
tually killing the Count and the other
three prisoners Of being accessories.
Not the least striking Of the many
dramatic situations in which the grew
some story abounds is that which re-
veals Tullio. in his capacity of 1nagis-
trate. leading the police into the cham
Der of death and taking an inventory
of its contents.
It is a strange blending of fate and
circumstances that brought these five
people together and landed. them in the
grim iron cage. The Countess and her
brother are the chief objects Of popular
interest and speculation. 1t is one of
the puzzles of heredity that DR.. Antonio
Murri. a model of rectitude, well bal
anced, a vigorous man, both bodily and
mentally, should be the father of two
such children.
COUNTESS REMAINS CALM.
The Countess owes nothing of her
powers of fascination to beauty. She
is a little woman with swarthy fea-
lures and has lost the sight of one
eve. When the police, accompanied by
a lot of Journalists, came to her faith
er's house to arrest her. she took the
matter very calmly. In her dressing
gown she opened the door of her room
and invited them all to enter.
I'VE all wept." wrote one of the Ital-
ian reporters, describing the scene in
his paper, but Linda calmly dressed.
brushed her hair and, with incredible
cynicism, cleaned her teeth
During the two years that she has