The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1911-03-04
MONEY CAUSE
Of TRAGEDY
Slayer is Still Alive, But With Small
Chance of Recovery--Queen
Helena Frustrated by the
Tragedy.
ITALIAN POLICE GETTING AT
MOTIVE OF MURDER OF
PRINCESS BY OFFICER.

Rome, March 3.-All Rome still is
talking of the sensational murder ON
Thursday of the Princess Giuia Tri-
gonna di SAINT Ella, the queens lady
in waiting by Lieutenant Baron Pater-
mo- Not in many years has the cap
itol been so stirred by sordid crime.
Paterno late tonight was slowly inn
proving. The bullet which he fired
with the intention of killing himself
remains imbedded in his skull. Al
though he is conscious ami able to
talk he has refused to give any ex.
PLANTATION as to why he stabbed and
killed the woman who had befriended
him.
The police, however, are not averse
to making known what their investi-
cations are unfolding. These, they
say, show that Paterno treated the
woman brutally before he finally kill
ed her. The princess, frail and un
happy with her husband, they allege,
fell easy prey to the rapacious noble
man, whose scandalons adventures
had brought him to the Threshold of
expulsion from the army.
A postmortem examination today
showed that the princess was first
wounded in the back and then in the
neck Either of the wounds would
have ben mortal.
1t was ascertained today that the
immediate cause of the murder was
the refusal of the princess TO give
the baron $4,000 with which to pay
his debts.
1t has been generally accepted that
when the queens lady in waiting met
Palermo at the obscure hotel Rebec-
chenio, her visit was one of renun
citation, imperial wishes that she have
done with the lieutenant and seek a
reconciliation with her husband,
Prince Trigona Di SAINT ELLA having
prevailed, Whether this supposition
was correct can be made known per-
haps only by her slayer; but the po-
lice investigation has left no doubt
that Paterno's first concern was to
secure funds from the source that mad
supplied nim before.
Everywhere deep sympathy is ex-
pressed for Queen Helena, Who, it is
known, had Made every effort 70
bring to an end the unconventional
alliance and reunite the prince and
the princess.
Indeed, it is possible that the muir
der was the indirect outcome of the
insistence of both the queen and
king that an end be put to a situa-
ton that for sometime had been fruit
tlul of backstairs gossip.
| The two daughters of tae princess
aged and IA years, are being shield,
ed from knowledge of the cruel truth
Paterno is not without friends at
this time. These point out that, hn
was beside himself with infatuation,
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eleven years the Junior of the woman
whose beauty might have turned the
head of an older and wiser man. He
saw the princess frequently at court
| functions when she was at her best
No one denies that she encouraged
his attentions.
The prince, who learned of the sit
uation through attempted blackmail
by one of Paternos creditors, who
held check made by the princess
had instituted proceedings for sepa-
ration, but these We're abruptly ended
yesterday when the failure of the
princess to appear was explained.
Both princess and prince were men,
bers of her majesty's court.