Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-06-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TERRIBLE STORY.  The Naples correspondent of the Times writes under date May 25: "One of the most atrocious cases of murder that I even Naples has ever known has been tried this week before the Extraordinary Court. of Assize. The interest created by it was so great, and the crowd so dense, that the President considered it prudent to consult an architect as to the stability of the Tribunes. Later on in the day, which is the fourth day of the trial, he expressed his regret that, in consequence of the presence of so many lades, he was unable to continue the reading of a letter bearing on the accusation. The murder was perpetrated in September, 1875, as I then reported, and was discovered by the arrival of a box or trunk at the station in Rome containing the remains of a young girl. After long and laborious investigations, the persons were found who had consigned the trunk to the employes at the Naples station, and several were arrested, among Atom was a man called Danieli. The name of the victim was Giuseppina Gazzara, and the first step which led to her miserable end was her seduction by a Franciscan friar. Palazz $, so the fellow was called, took a room in her mother's house in 1873, and when the poor girl was only 17 years of age ruined her. This connection continued for eleven months, when the friar was compelled to leave the house, and was shortly joined by the girl, who in the meantime seems to have made the avquaintance of another man, called Danieli, an intimate friend' of Palazzo. Tbe result was that the friar was robbed of a considerable sum of money, and the girl fled, but where no one could discover. Meantime, letters were sent to him offering to reveal her place of refuge for 500 lire, and Danieli, the friend, came to sympathise with him. At last came the catastrophe. The mutilated remains of the human body sent to Rome were recognised by her mother as those of Giuseppina, and Daniell was arrested on suspicion, which was confirmed by investigations. The loathsome details of the murder I will not repeat; suffice it to say that on the first day of the trial Daniell stated that on returning to his house one evening he found Peppinella dead, and, not knowing what to do, cut up her body with a razor, packed it ins trunk, and sent it off to Rome as linen. For nineteen months he has been lying in prison. Tuesday last was the most exciting day of the trial, as it was known that the friar would be examined as a witness, and the journals express their grief that so many ladies, and particularly young ladies, should be present on an occasion from which they could derive no inetruction in morality. The examination of Palazzo, a man of about 55 years of age, elicited no novelty, but, in answer to the question of the President, 'Would you have married her?' he replied, Certainly, the more so that I was at enmity with my relatives.' On leaving court, accompanied by several carabineers, he was received by the crowd in the passages with howling, whistling, and every expression of indignation, so that it was impossible to take him off with safety, and he was brought back so the room occupied by the witnesses. After some time there was a lull, and the , friar was again taken down and put into a carriage, I but, being recognised, he was followed with the same demonstrations of disgust and indignation. The scenic effect of this horrible trial, at least for this day, was terminated by the introduction of the trunk, in which I the mutilated body of Gazzara had been packed. Delicate ladies were, of course, most satisfactorily excited; yet more than so when Danieli on being asked whether he had bent that trunk, fainted, and on recovering fell again and again into convulsions, and was removed by four carabineers from the court. The trial will probably conclude to-day, and the sentence of the law pronounced, possibly with circonstanza atlenuante. Certainly, it will be so in another murder case which has been tried this week—that of a young man for murdering his uncle, a priest, two years ago; but there would seem to be some ground for &constanza attenuanto, as the sister of the young man was the motive of the crime, and she has since become insane."