WOMAN SEEKS REVENGE
BLOOD-THIRSTY VENDETTA
FATHER AND BROTHERS SHOT.
AT HER INSTIGATION
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 10.50 a.m. to-day. PARIS, Feb. 28. A blood-tliirsty vendetta was revealed at Bastia, Corsica, in the trial of Madeline Maneini, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for assisting to murder her father and brothers, whom she accused of betraying her lover Romanetti, the so-called “King of Brigands.” Tho latter established himself at Mancini’s house in 1917, but his brutality had reached a climax in 1925, when he- was ambushed and murdered. Madeline accused her father and brothers of the crime, fled from her home and joined the bandits, offering the leader, Perpettini, her love if be would avenge Romanetti’s death. Perpettini agreed. .Bandit's surrounded Mancini’s farmhouse and summoned the father and brothers to come out, and they were shot as they .issued from tho doorway. Madeline, having watched the slaughter from - a balcony, embraced Perpettini, who was still covered with the victims’ blood. Three women, wives of Madeline’s brothers, became demented at the sight of their husbands’ deaths. Two of Madeline’s accomplices were sentenced and three were acquitted. Perpettini was killed in August.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 March 1929, Page 9
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