CORSICAN VENDETTA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 17

CORSICAN VENDETTA.

WOMAN’S REVENGE BRINGS PUNISHMENT. (Unitad Presa Association—By Elect*!# Talagraph—Copyright.) PARIS. February 28. A bloodthirsty vendetta was revealed i$ |feasti&.- (Cornea), in the trial of MaiJclipA Maiyuni, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for assisting to murder lier father and brothers, whom she accused of betraying her lover, Romanetti, the so-called “King of Brigands.” The latter established himself at Manc-hiPs house in 1917, but his brutality had reached the climax in 1925, when he was ambushed and murdered. Madeline accused her father and brothers of the crime, fled from home, and joined the bandits, offering the leader, Perpettini, her love if he would avenge Romanetti*s death. Perpettini agreed. Ill© bandits surrounded Mancini’s farm house, summoned the father and brothers to come out, and they were shot as they issued from the doorway. Madeline, having watched the slaughter from the balcony, embraced Perpettini, who was still covered with the victims’ bJ(X>d. Ihe three wives of Madeline's brothers became demented at the sight of their husbands’ deaths. 1u o of Madeline’s accomplices were sentenced, and three wer© acquitted. Perpettini was killed in August.