The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-11-27
'CONfEsSEs
HIS CRIME
To PRIEST
IL -1..E4ll4
Italian ..NIsaks Terrible Vsa-
gsaacs Upon Painless wife
and pafani1ur

( ISenCAhst, Wis, Nov 2T-T0rmret
lhy the mental pictare OF his headless
wife and her paramaur whom ne
skew Saturday mghr Pasqnale Mar
chest, 81 years Gigh. a merchant sun
day went To a priest and confessed
The double crime which heretofore
had not been discovered The young
laFenger OF his honor was tuPued 0wer
to the police who are CLOSELY guard
ing him Cor tsaf ot possible mob
violence.
hie went home saturday night and
found his vile HuSsaria. and ais
lcouEiA and namlesaHe occupying Mrs
Alarcheas bed ehamber The Yanng
4 Marches VINO was NOT sf age. had
theen a tavarile GK che husband anti
the scene drove hMm mad, he said
Z Wlen0ur allowing his presence To be-
come Enowa Marcnesi went To a
waed sized, BrGcured a hand axe.
ierept to tie bed ROOM and chopped
81 the heaas 0f the Two lovers
! Taking his baby, two months old.
fron tie arms 81 rne slain wife. Mar
chest washed the Blood from los lace,
carried ir to tne home ct his brother
and sait that his wife WA ILL., Ee
returned TO the anuse, drasaed his
daughter. I9zephine fatr yeyars oii,
and took hsr to Ills brother.
4 Marchasi then returned 10 rhe
/ house, concealed tils hascnet and be-
gan wandering abcut the city. AS
morning began I'D dawn the srectres
THAI had haunted AlaFcheSi all light
az be- skunk through back streets,
drove him 90 hide IN the basement
Of an Italian Catholic ehareh
/ In rhs darkness Ok tile church
basement ha gail he heard the daarh
cries Gf hia wife and saw tie hnrrid
Forms OF aeadleas persons rushing af
him through the blacRness
AS the masic os the nlepning mass
came family to his ears from the
auditorium above, be said thar he
thought he distinguished the words
vengeance ia mine, saiEh the Lord
Then be rushed from his hiding place
Went To tine home Of the priest ana
sougAt relief in e0nfassng what he
Rad done
After the PRIEST had turned Mar
chest over to the police the slayer
tahI a connected starry Of the erirTes
pleading thai be had FELT Justified m
killing tbs pair al the time she deeds
Were committed hWt that later he
was sorry such horrid condition
aa4t crepC into his ife Ffe said
Il wenE home LAST might earlier
tilan { had expected ta return hazl
no suspicion af nv wife's anfaithfal-
nass, Bat iuaE tar fln peakad in
af her bedroom window I was friy
en 70 senseIssg desperation by the
sight thIt met my eYEs. There. WisA
all the confidence that ( myself might
rigiltfrlly exercise was n1Y Eaggrire
ganain INV nAHleaaka. weaxIng nly
niglltr15e My wife, Der tws babies
near her, was treating him TViFh che
Affection rhat was onig my ane
K became as one insane. ( ran tatl
a wood shed iA tla rear and seized a-
hlmhernans axe returned s0 lae
chamber window with only one
thought that of avenging myself
carefully raised The window so as not
TO be heard { crawled in Unseen amt
crept To the bed My arm strengthen /
ed BY the sight chopped of MAJ
cousins head az the lrst blow OF the
axe. Ha did not move, bar the acund |
OF the blow aroused my wife
She started up and fought savage |
W. She begged forgiveness throw I
ing herself on her knees TaaI was |
ths sud OF her Her praglng posture /
allsFe6 the axe to swing freely II
waz mad but I had sense enough te I
avoid striking the hsrw which my
wife had seized az she sought ra de- I
lend herself
Marchesi went on % fsli how IA I
had struck at his wife repeatedly. al /
mcst severing her head Bat always |
taking care not % harm che BABY