The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-01

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4 on any Sunday evening OF last year
one could have seen tbs Marquis Me=
hzaccra dining at ths Dfe8deh, On Flfth
avenue. The observer may not have
known this remarkable man nor any
thing Of his history. but he would IN
Istantly have noticed his fine, sinewy
! figure, and his features, clean-cut and
regular like tEcse Of an Italian
bronze.
It is well to remember that every
country maintains Kingdom lying
/ within the boundaries Of this repub-
Tic. I do not mean the fiction Of SOW
| ereignty attaching to the legations at
! washington, but a phantom state
! rather, keeping the customs, the tradi-
lions, even the very lawsNof the moth
er country.
It was only IN this kingdom Of italy
! that SiEnore Mazaccra was mar
quis. Uptown in New York. he was
merely a star Of heavy opera, one
Ricardo Robini, with voice like that
of many sirens. and yet the man,
plying this emasculated trade, was
lin fact a ruthless, calculating, steel
nerved sentinel. presenting himself,
Thus singing, in the worlds most
public places, and reporting each
night to that phantom kingdom OF
italy. set down like q well-fttinS
shadow over the streets and buildings
LOT New York
The Marquis Mazaccra lived openly.
lodged in a suite at the Dresden. And
/ yet for weeks the district attorney Of
I New York had known that this man
ought to be IN the electric chair: his
assistants knew It, the police officers OF
! the city knew 1t. On memorandum IN
J a pigeonhoIe Of the district attorneys
/ desk he was written down as guilty
! CT murder in the first degTee-willful.
| premeditated murder. The district at
! torney neglected, nay, it should be
( written. refused. to apprehend him on
criminal warrant.
/ Let us not too hastily denounce this
! district attorney of New York He was
/ an incorruDtibIe public servant, able,
persistent. fearless Why. then, this i'm
munfty to the Marquis MaZaccra, as
/ of one heaven born, amenable to no
/ law? Why was he not sent promptly
I to the electric chair, and after to dim
mer audiences? To know this it is
necessary to know first a chapter. OF
Italian history.
II, when one Is dropping his copper
tribute into the dish Of the collector
at Sorrento, he BiH look to his left
hand along the Bay of Naples. he will
observe a villa built Of ancient Sicil-
ian marble clinging like bit Of flung
up sea foam to little promontory OF
the shore, having for background
lemon grove, the thick branches sup
ported by a lath trellis, like that COM
monty built for vines.
WheE the singing marquis came
| into his inheritance there remained
| only this villa, the half-acre OF lemon
grove and the steps to the sea. out OF
what was once the finest estate in
Salerno. Even the treasures Of the
villa had, for the most part, gone else
where in exchange for Ira, that the
dissolute father of the marquis might
maintain to the last day his midnight
| court Of revels for the ballet of the
Neapolitan opera, coming up the stone
stairway, laughing, shouting, singing
| bits OF dissoIute songs, as though
escaped by some enchantment from
| the halls Of Morgana the Fay, under
one night, crowned with wreath
Of wiIted roses, brought b. the first
! arrivals from their dancing floor. the
Ole, marquis, running forward to vel
come Lauretta Matteo-the white
devil OF Naples-stumbled, and was
/ himself welcomed by the master Of all
devils
/ The young marquis, arriving swiftly
! from a military school at Milan,
/ found himself to have inherited
corpse, and little else. Every item OF
/ his inheritance had gone down the
| stone stairway, except this patch OF
/ garden, this house, this dead body OF
the marquis and an ancient painting
| of the Virgin hanging in its heavy
frame in the hall. This painting the
old marquis had not dared to sell. hay-
! ing a care for the welfare Of mis- body
/ into the bargain. It was painted from
/ some round-faced Tuscan model OF
, middle age and was wholly without
beauty except its coloring, which was
; wonderfully fresh and bright Never
theless. it was the most adored Virgin
I in the south Of Europe, with miracle
| to its credit beyond that Of any Vir-
gin of the cathedrals-not mere
! STRENGTHENING of legs or healing OF
| afflicted infants, but the saving OF the
| whole village Of Tore del Greco, its
/ meadows, it's crops, its villas, its
: churches, its gardens, as well, a4so' as
its cripples and its babies.
The manner OF It was that on
certain good Tuesday, with scarce
rumble of warning, Vesuvius began TO
pour forth ashes. sulphurous fumes
and laws. The alarmed but pious