The Washington herald., 1908-07-05

Milan. July 4.-Northern Italy has been
the scene Of two sensational love trag-
edies recently.
One Of the leading figures is the beauti-
ful young Countess Genevra Benuyog-
lio, Of Bologna. The countess, who be-
longs 10 a very old and once powerful BO-
logna family. IS barely twenty-one years
Of age. She was taken straight from
convent three years ago and married 10 a
Marsala wine agent named Lapaglia. The
couple lived in a small fat at Bologna
quite happily. but. as often happens in
Italian society. they kept no servant,
taking their meals at a popular restau-
rant Their only child had been put out
TO nurse with peasants in the mountains.
Persuaded TO EIOpe.
A young Venetian magistrate, named
.Paternoster. came TO Bologna. was struck
by the countess beauty, and laid siege 10
her heart with such success that he final
~ persuaded her 70 elope with him. The
countess. making the pretense Of q trip
10 Sicily for prolonged stay with a rela-
tive. Joined Paternoster in Rome, whence.
after devising the dispatch of letters
bearing the Naples and Palermo post
marks in order 70 put Lapaglia or the
scent the runaway couple took train 10
Paris. There they stayed a fortnight.
and then. as their funds were giving out,
they moved gradually down 70 Lugano.
Her penniless condition awakened pehi-
tence in the countess, and she telegraphed
10 her husband that she was ready to re-
turn home She also appealed 10 a local
lawyer friend 90 intervene on her behalf
The distracted husband. who meanwhile
had been journeying day and night,
securing Sicily, Rome. Paris. London,
and Switzerland IN quest OF the runaway.
signtned his readiness 10 forgive.
The lawyer friend met the countess at
Lugano, and, despite the delirious de-
meanor Of Paternoster, succeeded in es-
corting her 10 Milan, where he tele-
graphed 10 the husband 10 meet them
the same evening.
PaternOSter followed them and lay in
wait. No sooner had he caught sight Of
the unfortunate and UnOffending husband
| Lapaglia, then he assailed him savagely.
and then mortaIly wounded him with two
shots from a revolver at the entrance to
| the station. Paternoster. who is twenty
| eight years Of age. and had a promising
/ career before him, has been arrested.
Husbands Revenge.
The other case is that OF the Marquis
/ Corradl. who has been shot dead by the
husband Of a bewitching society woman
/ named Fanny Zaccaria-
/ On rising one morning the husband
caught hts wife in an adjoining room in
/ the act OF writing a passionate love letter
20 the marquis. The wife threw the un-
/ finished missiye out Of the window 70
prevent her husband from seizinS IL. but
he rushed downstairs into the street and
secured II. After reading IL, he went on
I with a loaded revolver 70 neighboring
hotel around the corner and killed the
marquis in the hall. He then fed 10 the
woods. but was caught early the next
morning while creeping back 70 his home.
| Yesterday there was a startling devel-
opment Of the case. Signora Fanny Zac-
caria herself. though seriously III in bed.
was haled of 70 prison under a special
warrant charging her with being an ac-
complice IN the murder OF the marquis.
The police hint that there is further mys-
terry underlying the affair which they can
not Yet divulge.
4 curious feature OF the case is the fact
that Nine. Zaccaria was due 20 appear
at the law courts at Leece next week in
connection with proceedings she had
taken against a woman in whose COM
lpa1y she had surprised her husband some
time ago.
II is stated that when SiEnOra Zaccaria
confessed her infdeIity 10 her husband he
presented her with a small revolver, dec
GRATED with mother-of-pearl, and told her
TO shoot herself Mastering her resolu-
ton. she kissed hcr husband. closed he
eyes, and. calculating IAN overt fired a
shot through the ceiling.