ITALIAN PALACE DRAMA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14109, 10 July 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

ITALIAN PALACE DRAMA.

SENSATIONAL BONMARTIVr i, % \: , DER RECALLED. i One of the most sensational crini« ''! : "i^ committed in Italy lias beea Recall ** : the unconditional release of SignW^V'?-' ! ; J I Murri, the widow of the murdered r< "* " ' Bonmartini. ; ; M 'She had already enjoyed three years' j|l 1 tial liberty, conditional on her resjd' J ! '& Portb-San-Giorgio at the villa of ht^, ttl Professor Muni. ■ «> 'B Among the famous crimes' of It;,:, „ " "'it tory the story of the death of Count*!* '■' " martini has a prominent place, jff ft the head of a noble family, and ,/J"'/i the daughter of a professor at 80l W The pair differed in political and rel'J** H family tradition, ami the marriage ■& ff happy from the first. ° "'"", ¥ S J I Bonmartini's friend say lie v,,. ,j iS , ed by her constant hunger for <'aiek I "{ j countess' party, however, insist that't'* li-T murdered man was a he-artless ami- ,'* *'% libertine. TlSi || In August, 1902, the- Counters 'i£fM went to Venice with her children T ."if! the count returned to Bologna from' 15 lit' country house. He was never seen '■,' If alive. " The countess telegraphed for i ' 5 of him, 'and had no reply. *fc ,J , His house in Bologna was a d l at . * •'• h which, after Italian customs, other fa* §!'■ lies rented apartments. Whin the'A *W was broken down there lay the cow 11 corpse in the entrance hali, with 12 iiaff.j '• - wounds in it. He had been killed as S!™ as he passed his threshold, for his fim. brella and bag were beside him. / , iffjf - Searching - the apartment, the afc'-fl found evidence which to the mind shosril that Bonmartini had been murdered bviu" ' accomplices of a woman whom he had "his self admitted. The widow, after«oSi'n,s"»l the expressions of general sympathy me|l for a holiday in Switzerland. * '*-i-iT'if Shortly afterwards anonymous" left-, *l!' "concentrated the suspicions of the poll» Trfe r upon Tullio Murri, the countess' brother' r- ■ f Following the clue, they questioned t woman named Rosina Bonetti, Tu'V, ' mistress, and their suspicions gathetci -'i* : A new chapter, began when Professor Mar. ri, playing the Roman father, suddenly & ' : nounced his son as the murderer. --, m Tullio, when arrested, pleaded that is, **% quarrel over the count's ill-treatment <,' '; his wife he had killed him wltha.it' which the count had drawn upon -j',, No one behoved him, and when the trial [■ '] began at Turin the countess, Rosina,asi two medical men named Secchi and Naßi ■' were in the dock with Tullio. ? It was nearly three years after the mm. ? '? der that the case was opened. It dragged | its course for six months. At the end fi? II court professed itself convinced that tkfp murder was the work of Tullio and NaWfii the .latter having used the stiletto with i ~H surgeon's skill " for a consideration." Ttejil ? were each sentenced to 30 years of solitait confinement." "The countess and Secchi", * % who is said to have been her lover/ were; I '-' given ten years apiece, and Rosin,. Bonetti® ' seven years. . ,' j|f jjy Tullio, Murri, Secchi, and Naldi art|| still serving their sentences, but it is ya ■; §! j ally believed that the whole story oi thi Wji tragedy has not been told. f 1