A HIRED MURDER.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 11, 15 December 1877, Page 3

A HIRED MURDER.

(From the Rome Correspondent of thu " London Ololx'.) A nknsation trial Ims lately given the Tiirlu people considerable excitement. The heroine is Lokla Sola Ti-ossarelln. This amiable female, now aged fortythree, was married when young t<> ft

husband whom slu- disliked, and whom she left after having borne him two children. Some vears ago she went to Tinlu, and there kept company for sixteen years with a student of mathematics called Francisco Gariglio. The young Gariglio having finished his studies became apprentice, and subsequently partner to one Signor Moriondo, a chocolate manufacturer. Becoming tired of Lulgia, he married the daughter of his employer, and deserted his paramour Lulgia.

But the " spreta: injuria forma; lurked in Lulgia's bosom. She first tried in every way to prevent her lover's wedding, and then attempted suicide. From this fate she was saved by her friends. She then resolved to take away her lover's life instead of her own, and took counsel with her washerwoman. She entered into negotiation with some scoundrels to procure the assassination of Garigolio, and agreed to pay forty lire —about £lo—for this business. The persons she hired were not over scrupulous, but thought they might client her, and gain the money by a trick. They dressed up a comrade so as to resemble Garigolio, and, pretending to stab him in the presence of the washerwoman, demanded and received a proportion of the sum agreed upon. Lulgia kept back part of the price until persuaded the murder was fully committed, but she afterwards found out her error by meeting Garigolio in the street':.

She tlicn renewed her solicitations, and at last prevailed on a man nicknamed II Tomo to execute her wishes. One evening Lulgia, Toino, Tomo's mistress, and a man named Brambilla, met at a drinking shop in the Piazza Vitetoria Emanuele. 1 omo here drank largely to give him courage. Lulgia gave him a long knife. They all left the wine shop, and went to the Via Degli Artisti. _ At this moment the unfortunate Oariglio issued from his house, and was at once pointed out to Tomo by Lulgia, who exclaimed, " Give it him ! Give it him ! " Tomo gave him one blow with the knife, and Gariglio fell mortally wounded. One would suppose the guilt of these assassins would require short discussion, but the trial lusted many days, and various were the opinions concerning the principal culprit. .She has been much pitied, and is said to have been faithful to her lover, which seems to count much more in Turin than faithfulness to a husband. She was even charitable and religious in her way, and rescued several maidens from the perils of the streets and sent them to asylums,

It is not of much consequence what. becomes of this amiable murderess and adulteress, who, doubtless, had many extenuating circumstances to plead in her favor." She took all the blame on herself, monopolized all the guilt and tried to screen her accomplices. Hut of what kind must be the morality of Italy, and of what value in the public opinion of a country where a lady can, through her washerwoman, hire as many bravaes as she likes to kill the object of her hate ? It seemed a pure mutter of business to II Tomo, a porter, to undertake the murderous job for three or four pounds English. It was a vulgar assassination, but was made a tragedy by the refined denizens of Turlu, who regarded Lulgia as a first-class heroine. Perhaps the knife with which the deed was perpetrated will be sent to His Majesty Victor Emmanuel, to keep company with the weapons of the brigand Leone.