FRECKLES AS A CLUE

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 35, 4 November 1922, Page 18

FRECKLES AS A CLUE

HOW AN ITALIAN MURDERER WAS CAUGHT. X All Rome is talking of a terrible murder which occurred at a villino in A ia Appia Nuova. writes the Rome correspondent of the All old lady of seventy. Signora .Petromlla Barberini. who lived quite alone, was found at 9 o’clock in the evening lying strangled on tho floor of her bedroom, her hands teing tied behind her with a thick c-ord. She wa? a money-lender and a woman of violent temper, who refused to live with her- married daughters, and had but one passion, that of increasing her wealth.' She was known to have large sums of ready money in the house. The assassin is Vagatf Macincca, a young mnn of twenty-four, from Ancona, with "a past record by no means to his credit. He gained access to the apartment of Signora Barberini by passing himself off as a gas inspector, .-and as something was wrong with her -meter, the old lady allowed hi’Ji to enter and go'.through all her rooms. He an .nounced that ho would return shortly with a capable workman. This he presnmablv did on the evening of the crime. These details have been furnished by a thirteen-vear-old (niece of the moneylender, who hnnpenedl to be visiting her mint when tho s-t-udo-inspector- called. The child was able to describe the man, who. she especially noticed, had his hands thickly covered with freckles. It is this last clue that has enabled the police to track dtown the culprit and arrest him.