ITALIAN DROMIOS.
An astonishing case of mistaken Identity has just been discovered by the police of Bologna. Three years ago a man named Mancfni was sentenced to four years' imprisonment. After a few months' incarceration he succeeded in escaping, and was not heard of until several months later.
An individual calling himself Miotti was then caught, and was declared by the police and the prison authorities to be the escaped criminal Mancinl. Miotti protested that he was not the man they wanted, but his description tallied so exactly wittt that of Mancini that he was not believed, and was put back in prison. .„. V
Within the last few-days, however, another man has been arrested in Naples, who appears to be the real Mancini. The resemblance of the two men is really most remarkable, extending as it does to a deformity in one hand, which both'men have in common.
The most curious part of the story is that Miotti, having been so frequently assured that he was Mancini, at last came to believe it, and there is now a conflict between the authorities, the witnesses, and the friends of the original criminal as to which man really is Mancini and which
is not
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, 3 January 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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