UNUSUAL TRAGEDY.
ITALIAN TWINS FIGHT DUEL. # —— ONE KILLED,' OTHER WOUNDED A. and N.Z. ROME. April 15. A strange tragedy has occurred here. Twin brothers, John _ and Joseph Tocci, who were conjoined, like the Siamese twins, and accumulated a small fortune by appearing at circuses, were parted by a surgical operation. They bought a farm, after which they had many business quarrels which ended in a desperate fight with knives, wherein Joseph was stabbed to death and John seriously wounded. The survivor has been arrested.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17140, 21 April 1919, Page 5
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