CORSICAN VENDETTA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 63, 1 March 1929, Page 5

CORSICAN VENDETTA

MURDER IN COLD BLOOD. WOMAN SENTENCED FOB LIFE. /United Pre*? Association—By Cable— Copyright.* I Australian and NZ Press Association.) (Received 1, 9.55 a.m.) Paris, Feb. 28. A bloodthirsty vendetta was revealed at Bastia, Corsica, in the trial of Madeline Mancini, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for assisting to murder her father and brother, whom she accused of betraying her lover, Romancttij the so-called King of the Brigands. The later established himself at tho Mancinin’s house in 1917, but his brutality had reached the 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 their leader, Perpcttini, her love if he ■would avenge Romanetti’s death. Perpcttini agreed and tho bandits surrounded Mancinin’s farm house, summoned the father and brothers to come out. and they were shot as they issued from the doorway. Madeleine, having watched the slaughter from a balcony, embraced Perpcttini, who still covered with hi* victim’s blood. Three women, tho wives of Madeleine’s brothers, became demented at the sight of their husbands’ deaths. Two of Madeline’s accomplices were sentenced and three acquitted. Perpcttini was killed in August.