A FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN VENICE.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 13, 5 June 1888, Page 2

A FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN VENICE.

A Vienna correspondent writes a One of the most brutal ; murders ever set on record in Italy was committed last week in Venice, a city little used to crimes of such : a singularly revolting kind. Giovanni Rossi, a young artisan, had, it seems, fallen desperately in love with his wife's sister, Anna dalla Giustina. As the girl steadily repulsed his advances, to conquer this absorbing passion, he left Venice with His wife for Gennoa, hoping to find work there. In this apparently he failed; and last Tuesday returned to Venice, sending his wife to her father's house, >^hile he went to that occupied by her sisterjAnna. It was early morning when he prept up the stairs and found her alone in a bedroom on the fourth floor. Her brother had gone to work. Foiled in a violent attempt upon her honoui*, he drew a revolver and shot her full in the face with it. Then, horribly disfigured as she was, he flung her sheer over the balcony on to the street pavement below. As she lay lifeless on the stones, he fired three more shots at her, and then in a frenzy of rage threw on to her body copper buckets, knives, a chopper, and everything which his madness could, convert into a missile. Failing to blow out his brains with the revolver, he gashed his tnroat with a razor and cut open the veins of his wrists, standing out on the balcony while the blood streamed down, . and calling to the horrified spectators, " E l'ultimo sangue mio !" " E l'ultimo sangue mio !" Before the police could arrive he was a corpse. Letters which he left on the table show that the murder was a premeditated one, due to dishonourable passion for his beautiful sister-in-law, who had invariably treated him with coldness and disdain.