VICTIM OF REMORSE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 102, 1 May 1908, Page 3

VICTIM OF REMORSE.

AN ITALIAN TRAGEDY.

FLORENCE, Feb. 23."' Last .;.. n|ght a ragged individual named Jaeobini appeared at the police depot _and asked to be arrested. He is a victim of remorse,. To the/police officer in charge he told- the following Moving; tale:— "For jpity's sake, arrest me 1 I can no longer sleep, because1 my nights are disturbed by visions of a tremendous crime which I have committed, and which has heretofore gone unpunished. Put me in prison; In consequence of. a condemnation for homicide -I was expelled from France, where I was a shoeblack. I went to Livorno, where I Uived with some relations. Bu^; one by one they died, and I took up my abode with a poor old ragpicker, to whom I paid a few pence weekly for my bed. His name' was Giovanni Colomba. We did not agree together, and there were perpetual quarrels. "One day I found out that Colomba was trying to do for me by putting poison in my food. Then I took a | box of lucifers, dissolved them in water and threw the solution into some soup, Which Colomba greedily

consumed. Shortly afterwards he was seized with the most atrocious pains and was taken to the hospital. But the doctors could not1 save him. Nobody suspected what had been the cause of his death. It was believed that he had picked up something in the street, swallowed it, and became the victim of his own gluttony. "Three years have now- passed and nobody could accuse me. But I cannot live any longer. For three years I have not slept. I am always persecuted by the most dreadful visions. I think if I was in prison and under trial T should at least sleep calmly, and. condemnation would bring peace to my conscience. So I pray you to arrest met" It is to be noticed^ that all the people who know Jacobini _say that he has never shown any signs of insanity. m —— mmmmmmm^mm—m