A MARSEILLES TRAGEDY.

Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 1

A MARSEILLES TRAGEDY.

Signor Della Valle, Italian Vice-Consul at Marseilles, and liia wife were at dinner on ai 6 t ® rrace of their villa wl »en a young Abyssinian, who had been dismissed from their service about a month before, came up and, with some violence, demanded money, which he declared was due to him. Signor Della Valle made a gesture of impatience, and the negro produced a revolver and fired five shots at the Vice-Consul and his wife. _ The Vice-Consul was seriously wounded in the neck and left arm, and his wife in the right shoulder. The assailant at once ran off. Signora Della Valle, who was only twenty-four years of age and of French nationality, died after three hours’ agony the bullet having penetrated her lungs! Both bullets were successfully extracted in the case of Signor Della Valle, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. • r

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