The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-09-04
WFE'S LOVE FOR
MEAN HUSBAND
IS UNDAUNIED
Romance, Rich in Affection,
Flows Through Lives of MIR.
and Mrs. MaribitO.
LEFT FIRST HUSBAND
TO MARRY CRIMINAL
MaribitO Took Pot Shot at Step
Father When the Latter
Tried to Interfere.

of the woman and stained by the
blood of the paternal parent, has come
to light in the conviction yesterday OF
Maribito of Mountain Iron, in the local
district court on a charge of having
manned his wife. The hero of ro-
nance, insanely jealousof his wife's
alleged attention to certain Hibbing
man, bit off the end of her nose this
summer. A charge of mayhem was
first preferred against him; but Tor
the reason that his wife clung to hlm
so closely, the authorities could see
no good chance to land convlctlon.
Then the charge was changed to
manning and yesterday afternoon
jury in Judge Hughes court found
Maribito guilty. The penalty. for this
offense is from to Is years IN prison.
The constancy that has marked the
relations of Maribito and his Wlte
seems incredible in these days OF
fickle-hearted lovers who fit from
one romance to another with the
avidity of butterfly in flower ped.
After the husband had inflicted
painful and lasting disfiguration upon
his wife's face he escaped to the woods
where he remained in hiding for some
time while the sheriff's force was
securing the county in search Tor
him. The wife had been taken to
local hospital for treatment. When
the offers failed to run across MARI
bito in any of the out of the way
places where it was expected he would
secret himself, they turned to the nos
pital and set watch. They believed
he would come to see his wife. He
did and was captured. Then his wife
refused to prosecute saying that
Maribiteo bit her nose off because he
loved her. Otherwise, she said, he
would not have committed the crime.
Mrs. Maribito's name was jennie
Talerica. She is an attractive dark
eyed Italian girl, and was married be-
fore she met Maribito but she forsook
both husband and friends and sought
the companionship Of forbidden
sweetheart of her childhood days,
which might have had cold water
dashed on it when recently her gal
liant, in a fit of passion and anger, bit
off a piece of her nose, but it was not
quenched.
Although her face has probably
been disfigured for life and her beauty
marred as a consequence of the incl
dent, the woman's love for her impul
sive husband remains undaunted
The romance which brought the at
tractive little Italian miss and her low
er together after he had shot and al
most fatally wounded her stepfather,
Mike Talerico, who attempted to
break the match and escaped only to
turn up again after she had become
betrothed to another whom she mar
ried and then deserted, started five
vars ago when Jennie was child OF
is
Stepfather 1nterferes
It was during the month OF brides
back in 1909 when John Marlblto de-
clared his love to the pretty Jennie
of West Duluth. He wooed and won
her. They would have been married
had not an irate stepfather asserted
himself, and refused to allow Mari
bito to pay his respects to the girl.
At christening party the man met
and uuarreled over the affair. Mari
bito slipped out of the house first and
law in wait for Talerico. When the
girls stepfather passed, struggle
Followed in which Talerico was shot
twice through the abdomen and one OF
Maribito's ears was partly bitten off.
Maribito escaped and was never
caught or arrested for the offense:
Talerico was rushed to hospital
where he hovered between life and
death for several days, finally recov-
ering. Later Talerico learned that
Maribito was at Mountain Iron, but
he requested the authorities not to
prosecute.
After the stepfather's recovery
Jennie was betrothed to Tony Talerico
a relative of Mikes. The wedding was
solemnized. Jennie tired Of the choice
her stepfather had made for her and
left Tony three months after the wed
ding, and went to Mountain Iron
where she and her lover, Maribito
were subsequently married.
Tony Talerico, the first husband, is
eight years older than Jennie. Mari
bifo is eleven years her senior. Tony
l.