The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-08-21 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE STOTJMBRIDGE OBSERVER.  has created here an imtnense seneat ton ; in all ita detail it is inset revolting, and might furnish another Mrs. Radcliffe with materials for a sensational romance. A highly-respectable journal, in defending Negri against the imputation of theft, also says there ran he no ground for the suspicion in the simple fact of his having loved a woman so desperately .as tie murder her. "He was not a mauvais wet. He was well-born, rich, honest, and only vain." In another passage he is described as "unfortunate." Thus it is (continues The Times' correspondent) the crime is condoned, and that a sympathy with it generates that prevalent sentimental feeling against capital punishment. Wonderful to relate, however, Neapolitan juries have within the last two months brought in verdicts in three cases without "at tenuanti civeostanze." Justice still hesitates ;there are the Court of Appeal and the Royal mercy to be invoked. The probabilities are that the sentences of three heinous murderers will be commuted. The same Correspondent, writing from Naples the 14th instant, has sent the following additional particulars :-Further detallshave come to light with regard to the horrid tragedy enacte ion the Roman railway last week, with which supplement the story I have already sent. As to the precise point where the CJuntess Cattaneo was so crueily murdered, it to have been between C osino and Aqinno, for at 3 she was seen to present herself at the window of the carriage, while at Isoletta, the frontier station, at no great distance, her lifeless body was found with a shot in the head and another under the bosom. The pistol, a revolver, and the cap of the murderer lay at her feet. Two countrymen who were at wait at a very early hour in the morning assert they heard the shots, an, I thus the locality can be determined. Nothing was heard or know n of the assassin until Friday evening. when a man with a bare head, clothes tofu and stained with blood, several teeth knocked out, anti .IE4 three or iiir wounds on his face, arrived late at St. Maria del Capita that Is. Capita Antic. His otrange appearance attracted th. &iteration of two Carabimers, to whom be gave the name of Carlo Bianchi, and told a story not Atogether satisfactory. At his request, however, they took him to a hotel, and then went to inform the police authorities. Meantime the soidisont Bianchi entered his room and ordered some vinegar and water to be brought, but on the return of the servant the visitor was missing. Ile had thrown himself out of the window, and was lying dead on the pavement below. Some officers of the Lancer. of Victor Emmanuel were sent for, and identified the body as that of Carlo Negri, a lieutenant In that regiment. Ilow he got into the carriage of the Countess, whether he walked .lotqt the footboard or managed to introduce huuself at Canna after her friends had left her at Caserta, perhaps will never be known, nor how he left the train. It is probable that he precipitated himself from it while in motion, tin dub solos wounds in his neck were infiteted apparently wien a Imes hairplu. The friends of toe unfortunate Countess telegraphed immediately from N't ghera 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 retitions which exitted between her and Negri, awl w hich led to the catastrophe, the minim have nothing to do, ami it is of far greater imp qtance to inquire what precautions exist on any line of railway against similar acts of violence. What is there to prevent any one from being murdered by a resolute amanita, in the silence and darkness of the 'light, in the corner of a carriage; or any wowati from being insulted and abused by some miscreant ; or any one of us from being robbed? S. long as therein no efficient communicatton between the pa. oengers and guards every traveller by railway is exposed to the chances of such disasters. Alto the line of communication outside the carriages, you may j wise of what melt would have been in the circumstances I have been descrining, with the windows closed, and the hand of a powerful man to 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 Inesmites so much needed, some good will have resulted from it.  F.;;;;.,(