The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-24

which ~ the two plans the authority
there preferred 20 follow.
But. IN the meantime the Marquis Ma.
zaccrs had elected 10 follow his own plan.
Taking the place of the Italian paper
hanger who had found the picture of Tho
Virgin of the Mountain. and disguised
As that workman. he went on the day FOL-
!ortN-eighih street and brought the
painting away with him inclosed in
roll OF hurlsp.
Pietro reported 70 Randolph Mason that
the stolen picture had been thus rscoy-
cred and that the authority of New Italy
nov considered the matter ended.
The MARQUIS OF Mszaccra. however. DID
not consider ~ thur ended. The score
| with Tolmsn Perkins remained vet 20
he settled. The Latin mind vas not ac-
ages at lsw for an injury. The Saxon
and the Teuton might hale his enemy be-
| fore a court and make him nay down
! MONEY. but such a plan was rspuCnant 20
! an Italian. Early peoples. lonE anterior
| TO courts. have held revenge 10 he a
| certain principle NJ Justice. the Mosaic
| law stood suuarcy on that human con-
| ception. Such an adjustment Of wrongs
appears In nature to be ethicallv correct
! \ return In exact measure Of the in
| Jury received semed somehow among
men 10 b. the only adequate conception
| OF equity. The literature Of all nations
shows this To be true. The final act of
any mclodrama TO-DAY constructed 10 meet
| the ropular conception OF Justice shows
| IL. likewise. to he true
/ Northern peoples have accustomed
themselves, after long effort. 10 the ,urn-
| ing of these matters of revenge over 10
third party for adjustment in tri-
| bunals created for that purpose. But not
| easily so those peoples 7th the sun In
! their blood.
! This is a right Of man which the Latin
Will hardly delegate 10 another. Tho res
| oute marquis again took the situation
| In his own hands.
| On a certain SUNDAY morning a few
| davs after the recovery OF the picture
of the Virgin Of the Mountain. New York
| was astonishcd by a homicide belonging
in its deliberate. cruel and theatrc de-
| tails TO some lnduisitorisl era. Mr.. Tol-
man Perkins. bachelor was found b.
morning in tho library OF his house on
| Forty eighth street I'm n DYING condition.
| Mr. Perkins had but lately returned from
| an extensive eastern tour and was tenn
porarilv living alone with his vale, in
| tho house, going out To a neighborinE
| hotel for his meals. This valet had left
at o'clock Saturday night and had gone
10 spend the night with his brother, a
gardener on one OF the estates on Long
| Island. When he returned at I O'Clock
SUNDAY morning and let himself into the
J house With his latch kew. he found his
master tied into bis chair a gag over
throat. from which his clothing and the
! carpet on the floor were saturated with
blood. The chair. a heavy oak one. was
pulled directly before a ful-length mir
ror. The library lamp had been placed
on a chair beside the mirror. so that
| the man thus placed. bound and gagged
could watch himself SLOWLY bleeding 10
death
To heighten this chastly thca,ric cf-
| feet he had been gagged with n heavy
| iron crucfiE. wrapped in an altar cloth,
| his feet. hands and body bound with
roncs such as certain order OF priests
wear around the middle and a small
print Of the Virgin Marv stuck in a cor
ner OF the mirror. Nothing In the house
had been disturbed. Mr.. Perkins. insen-
sIbe from loss OF blood was taken I'M
mcd,atcv to hospital and a saline So
luton Injected into his veins. lie re-
vived q little and ATTEMPTED 10 talk.
but was unable 10 do so. a pencil was
put into his fingers and he was asked
10 write the name OF tho person who had
attacked him. Finally. after repeated
efforts. he wrote the following words
! 1T was that Italian. the MARQUIS MAJ
accra. who did IT, When l get well
will XIII him
| He died at , o'clock. But the curtain
! was not vet rung down on the tragedy.
| CTo Sc Concluded Next WeekD