Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-12

ITALIAN LOVERS TERRIBLE
REVENGE,


Rome, Aug. 1l-For tearing out his
former sweetheart's tongue because
she had broken her promise to re-
main faithful while he saved enough
to support her, travelling dentist,
named Francesca vergani, has been
dragged to death by horse, to which
he was tied by the by-standers who
witnessed his vengeance.
vergani. when youth of nineteen,
fell in love several years ago with
Eloise Ferrari, girl year his junior,
and the daughter of prosperous
farmer of Revigo Province. The girl
liked him, but her parents objected
that he was too young and poor to
wed. Hoping to make fortune in
America, the young man took pas
sage for New York, after making his
sweetheart promise to accept no hus-
band 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
be stricken dumb If | 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 to which he thought she was en-
titled.
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 to make him, in Italy,
a comparatively rich man,
Corresponding through a mutual
friend, Vergani had heard regularly
from his bethrothed 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
well-to-do miller in her native vii
lage.
His love turned to hatred. Vergan
FASTENED at once to Italy, bought one
Of the stage coaches from which itin.
Grant dentistry is practiced in this
country, gathered a crowd and per.
formed a number of small operations,
meanwhile questioning his patrons re-
garding his former fancee.
As he had expected, it was not long
before she and her husband appeared
in the group about his coach. Him
self unacceptable 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 a pair OF forceps, 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 he 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 his horse and let it drag
him."
The suggestion met with instant ap-
prevail. One of the horses was un.
fastened from the coach, Vergani was
bound to its tail, and the animal, al
ready 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 al
most beyond recognition. The object
of his veneance probably will not re-
cover.