The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-14
TortureS to Death Man
Who Killed Her Fa-
ther by Wrongs
to Her.
Bodies of Girl Mother
and Baby Found in
Well-Letter
Explains.

ROME. March 14-Pigs roofing in a
graveyard in Calabria, southern italy.
have brought 10 light a remarkable
story Of love and tragedy which cost
four lives. A farmer, whose swine had
been in the cemetery, was driving them
out when he observed that they had
been digging about a newly made grave
and he was surprised to see the two
arms of a man protruding from the
earth
In this grave. a short time before.
had been buried the body of Giovanni
Avellone, d rich old land owner. His
death was caused by the story told
him by his beautiful daughter. Lucy.
She had related, only when the birth
Of a baby made further cOncealment
impossible that Andrew Campanlle,
whom she had loved, had promised TO
marry her, betrayed her, and then re-
fused TO marry her. The shock caused
her aged fathers death from heart
So when the authorities came to dig
up the body, which they believed had
been uncovered by the pigs, they as
To their surprise il proved TO be the
body OF young Campanile.
Buried Alive.
There were unnistakabIe proofs that
he had been buried alive that when
under the ground he awoke from a
drugged stupor and fought violently TO
free himself. pushing his arms up
through the earth. Then he could do
no more. and was smothered.
This accounts for the mysterious dis
appearance Of a young and rival suitor
about two weeks ago. No one could
account for his absence. Yesterday
he was discovered and confessed.
His confession barred a most remark
able story Of tragic revenge. After the
burial Of her father Lucy Avenone called
his young man 10 her, and together
hey Iured Campanle to her home
There his wine was heavily drugged,
ana after midnight, while he lay in a
stupor. the girl and the young man
carried him TO the cemetery Her ia
ther's casket was dug up and buried
again under the doorstep Of his home.
and into the trench of the grave the
living BODY Of Campanlle was dumped
and the couple covered il with earth.
Lucy Aveil0ne told the young man
20 90 TO his home and return IN ten
days, when. she said, II she was alive
she would marry him The ten days
had not expired when the tragedy was
discovered
Find Bodies In Well.
A search for Lucy Avellone and her
baby followed. They had not been seen
TOR two days about the handsome Avel-
lone estate. Had they left the prov
.rce Il would have been noted. A
searching party came upon the dead
bodies Of the girl mother and her baby
IN a well IN the garden OF the AvellOne
estate. A note under a stone in the
wall Of the well told the story
She related how she had drugged Cam
Sanile. not TO kill him by such an easy
and merciful manner. but to render him
temporarily senseless SO that she could
place him alive into the grave to which
he had sent her father. She wrote that
before the body Of Campanile was
wholly covered with earth he became
conscious. and she had the joy OF see
ing him struggle against the death that
was overtaking him Then she and the
young ,man hurried to fill the grave so
that he could not escape She watched
there until he was dead. her revenge
then being complete, she prepared for
her own death and that OF the child.
When all had been arranged she held
the baby IN her arms and leaped into
the well