Italian Bluebeard's Crimes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6789, 4 September 1900, Page 4

Italian Bluebeard's Crimes.

EIGHT UOLD-BLOODED MURDERS ATTRIBUTED TO HIM. Rome, July 24. An apparel'l terrible series of crimes by one man under remarkable circumstances lias just come to light at Gagnano Yarauo, a small town not far from Home, In this town lived one Alancini, who had been thrice married. Hi 3 wives died in rapid succession, each leaving offspring, and at the comparatively early age of '11 he found himself a widower, for the third lime, with five boys on his hands. To marry a fourth wifv> was his next objpet. His search for a partner was not a long one. but the young and pretty giri whom he had chosen refused to marry him as she did not wish to be burdened with the care of five children. Her refusal was followed by sinister events. Us c after the other, like their molhe s, the boys died, and by the end of !wo years they were all in their craves. His burden having 'thus diopied from him Signor Maucini presented himself to his inamorata and j demanded her hand. But the strange and sudden deaths of tlie five children had excited the suspicions of the young lady's parents, and the authorities were communicated with. An inquiry was opeued, and it is now proved that Signor Marcini starved the children to death, while it is strongly Euspected that he got rid of his wives in a similar uianuer.