DESPERATE ATTACK ON A BRIDEGROOM.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3110, 21 March 1883, Page 3

DESPERATE ATTACK ON A BRIDEGROOM.

A desperate railway outrage is reported to have taken place near Genoa. A young German and his wife, who had been spending their honeymoon at Home, were travelling to Genoa in a a first-class compartment, when at

Busalla’they were joined by a respectably dressed Romagnole of about thirty. All went well till the train entered the Giovi Tunnel, when the Remagnole, pointing a revolver at the German s breast, demanded his purse or his lift. The German grappled boldly with his assailant, and wrenched the weapon out of his hand, not, however, before the man had discharged four shots, two of which were lodged in the German’s shoulder. Nor was this all, for being deprived of his revolver, the Italian recurred to his stiletto, with which he inflicted five wounds on the traveller, one of them a severe head cut. The shrieks of the young wife at length reached the guard, who stopped the train and came to the ihe man was secured and made fast in the luggage-van, and the train proceeded. The train had not gone far, however, before the guards discovered that their prisoner bad got away, and they had again to stop. Fortunntely, he was recaptured at Ponte Decimo, and into custody by the Carbineers. The German is in the doctor’s hands at Genoa. One of the bullets will bave to be extracted. The lady was cut about the hands in trying to disarm the man. Her husband had £l2O about him.