DETECTIVE CONFESSES MURDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13390, 19 January 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

DETECTIVE CONFESSES MURDER.

RECONSTITUTES CRIME AND KILLS

HIMSELF. Ko.\ir, December I.— The detective instinct, triumphed to-day over a man's love of life, and incidentally the Italian police force lost on» of its most promising young detectives. A few months ago the*body of a young peasant girl, Domenica Viiicetti, was found terribly mutilated near the cottage in which she lived with her parents, in the village of Viggiano. The case was given to Giovanni Cantiri a. young detective who had already distinguished himself by unravelling several intricate crimes, and' he devoted himself to it. Yesterday he entered the police office at Viggiano. and informed his superiors that he had found the murderer.

He proceeded to reconstitute the crime, and explained how the murderer had met the girl behind a hut in the held and demanded that she marry him. The girl refused and ran away, and the man pursued her and struck iter on the head with a stick. Cantiri then described how the man buried the blood-stained stick, and how he had found it. He also produced a blood-stained coat, which he said the murderer had worn. He pointed out finger marks on the stick, and then pressing his lingers on some wax pointed out that the prints were identical with those on the instrument with which the girl was killed. He put on the coat, winch lifted him perfectly, and then declared: " 1 killed Domenica Vincetti because she refused to marry me."

Then, before his astonished superiors could interfere, he drew his revolver aud shot himself.