The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-27

Captain was sick in the barracks at Shanhaikwan and made her way thither only to be repudiated and ordered out. Shes pent a night in the open, made her way back to Pe- king and went to a hotel
 Her story continues:
 "A little after 10 o'clock somebody knocked at my door repeatedly. and at my inquiry said it was a friend who wanted to speak to me. answered that I had no friends, and that there must be a mistake in the outside then said that she was the wife of the Italian Minister, Mar chesa Durazzo. I said I was sorry, but as I had already retired for the ceive her. But she was most insist ent, and after having put on a trav- ing coat, l opened the door. A very long conversation ensued, in which naturally the Captain was mentioned. I told her that I would see the Min ister, whereupon she said that the Minister knew all about it and that the Minister. Commander Pardo and Captain Pitri knew that she was ac- tually with me.
 "As we talked rather loudly a lady who was staying in a room near by came to the door and requested us not to make so. much noise. The Marchesa spoke to the lady through the ha1f-opened door and I noticed | that she locked the door when she finished with the lady. She then asked me. where I kept the Captains correspondence and I told her in the | wardrobe. She asked me to let her see it and I consented to show her something.
 She said that a lot of people were | talking about her and that I was one | of those who believed such talk. The | Marchese de Campolataro CD was telling a lot of things out of pure | Jealousy because she refused to be
 his friend. I told her that as I did | not know the Marchese di Campola- | taro. did not care at all about what | he said and that I only believed things I could see with my own eyes.
 ''I then went to the wardrobe where all the letters were kept in a small handbag, and I had hardly | touched the bag, which was at the
 bottom the wardrobe, when I re- | ceived a number of heavy blows on
 blows came from till I turned my head and saw the Marchesa standing behind me, hitting me all the time with something black and heavy and | holding me by the neck with one l hand. I shouted: 'Marchesa, if you 1 want the letters you can have them.' She then said something which I will only tell the Court in Acona.
 l T shouted for help and tainted, but came back to my senses when she 1 cut my right wrist first and then the bleft. AS I was only half dead I could not very well see the weapon she ! used. I could only see something bright and shiny. I also saw her | passing with the small bag in her ! hands and thought that she had taken it away with her, but found out a few days later that she had left it | on the chest of drawers at the other | end of the room. I noticed how she turned off the electric light prior to unlocking the door and after she had made sure that nobody was in the l corridor outside she left hurried1y. T gathered all my strength and managed to open the door and shout: | 'Boy! Boyl and then I fell in the cor ridor outside my room. I do not know how long I was lying there till I was found by the manager of the hotel and carried to a nearby bath
 room, where I was bandaged and Elater on sent to the Rockefeller Hos- pita1. What then happened can De seen from the doctors certificate
 There follows a technical descrfp-
 tion of Mme. Cioci's injuries by pr Adnair s. Taylor, professor of surgery
 in Peking Union Medical College, tht
 institution recently formally dedicated by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in which
 there is a prognosis of permanent lo
 cal paralysis from a cut in the righ
 wrist