STRANGE CASE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 291, 6 November 1928, Page 8

STRANGE CASE

3.15 P.M. EDITION

INCIDENTS IN ITALY

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association). Received November 6, 9.55 n.m. ROME, Nov. 5. A decision has been reached in the Bruneri case, which has dragged on for over a year. It will bo recalled that Madame Canella, in April of 1927, was stated to have proved incontestably that a man who was declared to be Professor Canella was actually her husband who disappeared in the fighting in Macedonia in 1916.

Tho police declared that tho man was Bruneri, against whom there were allegations of theft and wife desertion. Madame Canella’s statement, that the marks on tho body, hitherto not divulged, proved that the man was her husband was considered to represent a smashing blow to the finger print system and she bore out her contention by sheltering tho man in her home during the proceedings. She might have continued to shelter the man had not fresh evidence resulted in his re-committal to an asylum. The tribunal to-day decided that he was not Professor Canella., but Bruneri.