The Bee-Hive : — 1869-08-21 (London, England)

TUE MURDER OF A COUNTESS.  The Naples correspondent-of The Times writes ts rollows on the 12th irat.:—•` Fartheraletails have corhe o light with regard to the horrid tragedy enacted en the Roman railway last week, with -which I sapplerneht the story I have already sent. As to the precise paint here the Countess Cattitaeo was so cruelly murdered, it teems to have been between Cassino and Aquino. for at Cassino she was seen to present herself at the window of the carriage, while at Isoletta the frontier cf,itian, at no great distance, her lifeless body was round, with a shot in the head earl another tinier the osam. The pistol, a revolver, and the cap of the murlover lay at her feet. Two countrymen who were at work at a very early hour in the morning assert they beard the shots, and thus the locally can be determined. Nothing was heard or known of the assassin tortil Friday evening, when a man with n bare head, clothes torn and stained with blood, several teeth knocked out, end with three or four wounds on his face, arrived late at St. Maria del Capon—that is, Capita Antica. His strat.ge appearance attracted the attention of two CartaWneers. to whom he gave the narne-Of Carlo Bianchi, and told a story not altogether satisfactory. At his Tarp-test, however, they took hitn to a hotel, and then went to inform the police authorities. Meantime the wi disant Bianchi entered his room and ordered some vinegar and water to be brought, but on the return of the seivant the visitor was missing. He had thrown himself out of the window, and was lying dead on the pavement below. Some officers of the Lancers of Victor Emmanuel were sent for, and identified the body as that of Carlo Negri, a lieutenant in that regiment. How he got into the carriage of the Countess, whether he walked along the footboard or managed to introduce himself at Calms, after her friends had left her at Caserta, perhaps will never be known, or how be left he train. It is probable that he precipitated himself from it while in motion, though some wounds in his neck were inflicted apparently with it large hair. pin. The friends of the unfortunate Countess telegraphed immediately from Voghera to the political authorities, requesting that a 'modest' funeral might be given her, and she now lies buried at Arce, a small place near the railway. With the mysterious relations which existed between her and Negri,-and which led to the catastrophe, the public have nothing to do, and it is of far greater importance to inquire what precautions exist on any line of railway against similar acts of vielence. What is there to prevent any one from being murdered by a resolute assassin in the silence and darkness of the night, in the corner of it carriage; or any woman from Icing ingaillted and abased by some miscreant; or any one of us fvorn being robbed? So long as there is no flicient communication between the passengers and guards every traveller by railway is exposed to 'the chances of such disasters. As to the line of communication outside the carriages, von may judge of what use it would have been in the elrcnm3tanc-s I have been describing, with the windows closed, and the hand of a powerful -man io prevent all access to them. Disasters always forerun and compel remedies. and if this brutal murder should direct the thoughts of -railway directors to the precautionary measures so mu-ch needed, some good will have resulted from it."