ITALIAN MURDER TRIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 49, 28 February 1905, Page 5

ITALIAN MURDER TRIAL.

A SEMSATIONAL CASE. DR. NALDI'S EVIDENCE. fPRBSS ASSOCIATION 1 (Recoived February 28, 8.30 a.m.) HOME, 271 h .February. Tho BonmartiniMurri trial, in which fivo porsons aro charged with tho murder of Count Bonmartini, has boon resumed at Turin. Dr. Naldi, one of the accused, testifird that Tullio Murri entered tho Count's houso having in his possession a syringo with which ho intended to injocL poison into tho sleeping Count's voins. Dr. Naldi remonstrated, and quitted tho houso. , Early in Octobor last tho trial bogan of Countess Thcodolinda Murri, her brother, Tullio Murri, her lover, Professor Secchi, Dr. Pio Naldi, and Rosinn Bonetti, Tullio Murri's mistress, for the murder at Bologna of Count Bonmartini on tho night of 28th August, 1902. iho accused had boon kept in prison over since that dato while tho police collected evidonce against them. The trial was oxpoctod to last soveral months, as moro than throo hundred witnesses had to bo oxamined, whilo several lending Italian specialists had been asked to appear on one sido or tho othor. Tho history of tho Bonmartini-Murri caso, as it is called, is of European re- , nown. Count Bonmartini was a rich nobloman of Bologna. Some yoars ago ho married Thoodoiinda Murri. Tho marriago was not a happy one, and for several years tho two livod apart. In tho beginning of 1002 a reconciliation was offoctcd, but the husband's cruelty and immorality immediately restarted tho family troubles. To make matters worso, Linda had a lover, Dr. Secchi, whom sho had known bofore hor marriage, and who had as few scruplos as her brother or horsolf. Sovoral attempts, it is allogcd by tho prosecution, wevo mado to poison Bonmartini, but unsuccessfully. Finally it was decided that ho must be got rid of, and plans were laid to kill him in his palaco at Bologna, whithor ho was returning from his family, whom ho had left at Vonico. Tho murder was successfully carried through, though in an unnacossarily brutal manner, seventeen wounds boing found on tho body.