East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14
ITALIAN LOVERS
QUEER REVENGE
TORE FAITHLESS SWEET
HEARTS TONGUE OUT
Dago Dentist Returns from New York
TO Native Land When He Hears
Girl Had Welded Another Man,
and Takes Horrible Means of Get.
ting Revenge.

and Takes Horrible Means of Get.
ting Revenge.
Rome, Aug. 14.-For tearing out
his former sweethearts tongue be-
cause she had broken her promise
to remain faithful while he earned
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 by-standers
who witnessed his vengeance.
Vergani, when a youth of 10, fell
in love several years ago with Eloise
Feraari. a girl a year his junior and
the daughter of a prosperous farmer
of Revigo province. The girl liked
him, but the parents objected that
he was too young and too poor to
wed. Hoping to make a fortune in
America. the young man took passage
to New York, after making his sweet
heart promise to accept no husband
until he returned to claim her.
The two took their vows of faithful
ness in the village church, repeating
together as they concluded, MAY l
be stricken dumb If l violate the oath
have taken
Fortune was slower in coming to
him in America than Vergani had
hoped, and it was eight years before
he considered himself able to support
the woman of his choice in the fash
ion in which he though she was es-
titled.
He had found employment in the
meantime with an itinerant dentist,
who, taking a fancy to the young Ital-
ian, finally made him his partner,
equipped him with a smattering of
dentistry and enabled to accumulate
enough to make hims in Italy, a COM
paratively rich man.
Corresponding through a mutual
friend, Vergani 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 con-
fident that the girl remained true
to him.
Just as he was preparing to return
home however, he learned a month
in Boston, that she had married a
well-to-do miller in her native viii
lage.
His love turned to hatred, Yer
gani hastened at once to Italy, bought
one of the stage coaches from which
itinerant dentistry is practiced in that
country and drove to Monselico, a
village near Padua, where he arrived
during fair time, gathered a crowd
and performed number of small
operations, meanwhile questioning his
patrons regarding his former sweet
heart.
As he expected 1t was not long be-
fore she and her husband appeared
in the group about his booth. Himself
unrecognlzable In a long beard he
wore, he beckoned to the woman, who
encouraged by her husband, agreed
to a trail Of a powder with which
he had been polishing the teeth of
several Of the villagers.
Catching up a pair of forceps as
she opened her lips, he seized and
tore out 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
first instinct was plainly to tear him
to pieces. AS they tore him from the
coach, however, some one shouted,
"Tie him to a horse and let it drag
him."
The suggestion met with instant
approval, One Of the horses was un"
fastened from the coach. Verganl
was bound to It's tail, and the animal,
already frightened and rearing, was
lashed into 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 will probably
not recover.
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