A CRIME CURIOUSLY AVENGED.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 548, 28 June 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

A CRIME CURIOUSLY AVENGED.

Last year there was in Rome a modelgirl named Guglia Setacoi, who was a wonder of beauty among all the painters and sculptors. Two noted sculptors, who were brothers — Ernesto and Gabreil Bagnagefcti — fell desperately in love with the siren, who waa as coquettish as she was beautiful, and the result was a fierce quarrel, in which Ernesto was killed, after which the beautiful cause of the fratricide fled with a young brigand, while the murderer escaped the law, only to fall a victim to the most racking and maddening remorse. The image of the dead brother returned to him in the guise of love, as he had been before the beautiful Guglia had estranged them, and his love for the woman turned to bitter hate., He conceived what the Italians believe in as a sort of superstition and duty — a vendetta • that is a sworn vengeance. He disguised himself, and upon the report of a visit to Paris, frequented the haunts of the thieveß and brigands of Rome, where Guglia habitually went. He was not long in finding her, but it took six months to persuade her into his residence aud win her confidence ; which he did, however, at last, and under so perfect a disguise that she never suspected who he was. In carrying out his vendetta he had become poor, and was obliged, to work at -wood-csrving to make a livelihood. He carved figures of saints, and the work was so beautiful that the saints never waited long for purchasers. One i day Guglia disappeared suddenly, and was found in the Tiber; but who the murderer was, nobody could even suspects The xw«4-earver disappeared ten days afterward, and in hiß room the landlord found the blood-stained garments of the beautiful model-girl, and a keen sculptor's tool, with evidences on it of the crime ; so that it was plain that Guglia's last friend— the wood-carver— had done it. But where to find him, was the question which no detective could answer. In the meantime the sculptor who was supposed to be visiting Paris, appeared in Rome again. A month ago— long after the crime had ceased to interest anybody — an artist happened to be in the police headquarters and noticed a figure in wood of St. Sebastian, and was so muoh struck by ita beauty that he inquired why and how it came in such a place. "Why," said an officer, "that Baint was made by the wood- carver who murdered the pretty model girl. He left it when he ran off." "Then I can tell you who the murderer is," exclaimed the artist; "for I'll swear that figure is the work of Gabriel Bagnagetti. No other sculptor in Rome could have done it." Gabriel's remorse had been wiped out by the accomplishment of hia vendetta ; but no sooner did the officers confront him with the figure of St. Sebastian and the opinion of the artist, than he burst into a frantic fit of rage and confessed his crime. His artistic BkiU had betrayed him through all his precautions, and by means of his patron saint— New York Times. ,

The Mormon Giant Girl, who formerly travelled with Barnum, and has of late been on exhibition at a Bowery museum, New York, has lately died. Although only 18 years of age, she weighed 5161bg, and her coffin was 6ft 6ia in length and 2ft in width,