The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-01-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. SAD STORY FROM NAPLES.  A tragic and inexplic lie double suicide has melted great horror and sympathy at Cosenza, in Calabria. The celebrated Calabrese novelist, Signor N. eta Mi,asi, who was a friend ef the patties, and was in the city at the time. thus relates the story to is Doie, Kee, correspondent: I was givieg lisso in sclionl when I received a men ige to go at once to the house of my friends the Mosciares. rea. bine the street, I found such a crowd that I rasa °ply with difficulty. Entering the house I rushed up.teiis, and encountered the mother (..7 my friend Captain Mosciaro, evidently half-mad with terror. She began incoherently to relate what bad happened. Two carabineers were stationed at tit door of Captain Mo ciaro's bedroom. ten caterin e I :acs thai tha te.d had been slept in. I miseeil into he toiest room, when a horrible spectaide method me. lily poor friend was seated i n the gri und near an open trunk, his shoulder..? Felipe,' against the corner of a wardrobe, his head suek on his breast, lie had on only hi shirt and trousers, .ind hie boottr were fell of blood. Near hint, on her side, dressed in petticoat, and bcdice, lay MA wife Amelia. Both were dead. Both wire killed by revolver thee, and strange to say, in exactly the same place in the heath The ernoke front the weave, still hung about the room. Their past story was briefly- as follows. Edward Mosciarm whil,t still a boy at school, fell in love with a girl of his ewe age, Amelia Marini. On leaving school .sciaro welt to the Military Celli-lee, and Amelia ...am carefully educated. As she grew.un. shit was weed in Cesenza tor her cultine, aelieh:hty, and alent. This toy and girt had already pnetheil ti ip faithful to each other, and thoueii tart' I !Met mit other for years kept their word. nisei:ire was pr i united lieutenant, but as neither peesessed the sum di mieded by the military law before an cfrwer Call marry, they were content tee wait mai, o +'teams, captain. Meanwhile Moselarn item is malady which. pnbeerieg his reed, nearly killed him, and pethaes tl:is illness was the ystsiuio isning cause of the au den mania which is the only exphuation of his suitedie Bat at the thee he WO entirely curd of his malady, and .returned to tde regime.% After lt,years of patient cenetaecy eed waiting, Mceciaro' mother, brother, mid grand, ether, in aereement w ei the parents ef , iirniShed the sum necessary to make the faithful I,IV,TR happy, anti the v.eilding was fixed for tho :wean of May, .101. At (Lie time bob levees were ,30 years 01 ace. On corgratulatiug the bride, I c.,uld not help :epee, "I sincert ly wish 11 it the reality may never destroy your .Iream," and she replied, " Ratner would I die." The letters received from the newlycarried couple breathed only of fell...ry. Care-1.4n of the company of other, they ri•tir•it into a -eche-led, domestic life. But after nearly two years •,f absence from home. they felt a loneieg to visit heir relations who had done so. tench for thele. Captain Blesciare obtained leave of'alisence for nine weeks, and i etermined to pass his holiday, at Cesenia. His wife wrote to her friends from Verdlna, eThe joy of seeing you all will be se great that I fear Cod will make me die." This word "die" was a favourite and often marine ritorneila in her sayings and letters. 'Me day before their death, Captain Mosciaro and his wife arrived at Cosenza , iiappy, pined of each other, and joyous. That day was a festive eye in the Mosciaros' house. Captajn ' Mosciero kissed his mother repeatedly-. thanking , her and his brother for having secured his happi- ' lII'S,. Having accepted an 'levitation to go early 'he next day to Amelia's tallier, the y-aung couple retired early to rest. The next !untying at 9 ache* the captain's neither knocked at their ,diamber door to say that his father-in,laves ceach-. inan WWI waiting with the carriage to fetce them. No one answered. "They are still asleep, lazy children," exclaimed tile Mother. Her daughter Attelitie, who slept in the next rocm (tithe captain, , remarked that she had never heard theni move. The I rn ther knocked again. . Amalie called' from within. I " Wait a moment, mamma" anti the metier heard • her open a window. Shortly after there was heard a dull thud, followed by a Cesra,rati,, cry from Amelia. The mother, terrified, sheet the door V olently. It yielded, and, rushing intrethe wrn, she saw Amalie, mad with terror: kneeling leA the sloe of her fallen lausbeed. "What is it 1,." tried the mether. "Edward has wounded himself." 'hit for?" screamed the elder lady. For nethin ' I don't know. For nothing:" The mother ran tr. • call for help, anti the housekeeper, who had tollowid her into the room, ran to raise the captain. As she did so she heard a shot, tiler another, and she saw Amalie fall dead at her side. The captain was still breathing, but died shortly after. These are the simple facts. Nothing cae explain the suicide of my frieml. Only phyeicians, such as Lombroso, who study cues of aiuddee suicidal mania, may have some explanation to give of the sad fact. Perhaps not even they. The secret of my friend's death is hidden for ever in the tomb, watched by two invisible spirits—love and death. At the London Court of Bankruptcy on Siturdee the Official Receiver issued his summary in the case of Miss Lucille Hill, who states that during the last three years she has had engagement+, at the Royal English Opera House, and latterly at the Savoy Theatre, at which latter place she is engaged in the opera "Haddon Hall,- at a salary of El 2 per week, which, however, is subject to a weekly charge of £2O in respect of advances made by the proprietor. The liabilities amount tc £1.982, of which £1,210 are unsecured, and the &sista are estimated at £5O. The debtor propores to set aside a portion of her salary for the benefit of 10 1' creditors until she has paid them Is. 6d. its the paund.