The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-19
LOVERS AWFUL REVENGE
Tore Out Sweetheart'S Tongue
Because She Married Another.
TOOK VOWS OF FAITHFULNFSS

to Make Money to Support His
Sweetheart Found on His Return
That She Was Already a Wife.
ROME. Aug. 15.-For tearing ont
his former sweetheart's tongue be-
cause she had broken her promise TO
remain faithful while he saved
enough to support her a travelling
dentist named Francesca Vergani has
been dragged to death by a horse to
which he was tied by the bystanders
who witnessed his vengeance.
Vergani when a youth of 19. fell
IN love several years ago with Eloise
Ferrari, a girl a year his junior. and
a daughter Of a prosperous farmer Of
Reyigo province. The girl liked him.
but her parents objected that he was
too young and poor to wed. Hoping
to make a fortune in America the
young man took passage for New
York, after making his sweetheart
promise to accept no husband until
he returned to claim her.
The two took their vows of faith
fulness in the village church, repeat
ing together, as they concluded.
May j be stricken dumb if | violate
the oath | have taken
Fortune was slower in coming 10
him in America than Verganf hoDed
and it was eight years before he con
sidered himself able to support the
woman Of his choice in the fashion
in which he thought she was emit
tied
He had found employment in the
meantime with an itinerant dentist
who, taking a fancy to the young
Italian, finally made him his partner.
equipped him with a smattering of
dentistry and enabled him to accu-
mulate enough 10 make him, in Italy.
a comparatively rich man.
Corresponding through a mutual
friend Fergani had heard regularly
from his betrOthed during the first
SIX years Of his exile. Then the let
ters suddenly ceased. The young
man was worried and anxious. but
still confident that the girl remained
true to him. He was confident. too.
that had anything befallen her his
friend would have informed him.
Just as he was preparing to return
home, however, he learned, a month
ago in Boston, that she had married
a Well-to-dO miller in her native viii
lage
His love turned to hatred. Yer
gani fastened at once to Italy, |
bought one of the stage coaches from
which itinerant dentistry is practiced
in this country, and drove to Mon
selicO, a village near Padua, where
he arrived during fair time, gathered
a crowd and performed a number of
small operations, meanwhile ques-
tioning his patrons regarding his
former fiancee.
AS he expected, it was not long
before she and her husband appeared
n the group about his coach. Him
self unrecognizable in the long beard
he wore, he beckOned to the woman.
who, encouraged by her husband,
agreed to a trial of a powder with
which he had been polishing the
teeth Of several of the villagers.
Catching up pair of fOrcepts as
she opened her lips he seized and
tore out a large part of her tongue,
while the crowd looked on, frozen
with horror. Then, as the agonized
husband dashed forward and caught
his fainting wife in his arms a rush
was made for the coach. The
crowds instinct was plainly to tear
him to pieces. AS they tore him
from the coach, however, some one
| shouted, Tie him to his horse and
| let it drag him"
The suggestion met with instant
approval. One of the horses was un-
fastened from the coach, Vergani
was bound to its tail. and the ami
NAL, already frightened and rearing,
was dashed to a gallop. The victim
Of the mob's vengeance was dragged
nearly two miles before the runaway
animal was stopped. Vergani was
then almost beyond recognition. The
object of his vengeance probably
Iyarf1