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Show A TTONOLIt(XI.NTOaT. A Ctrl Girn lp Her Renul) r.r Ilcr L.rer. Xeiv York, Dec 2'J. Augutiua Carmcuetti, a liandsamo Italian, is detained at tlio bargo office as an er-conicl, and under thu immigration immigra-tion law he is debarred from lauJ-ing. lauJ-ing. Csrmeuetti was a tteerasre passenger on tlio f-ttamer JIind-M-stani which arrived from Naples, on Wednebday. lie confessed to the registry clerk that he had served nine months in an Italian prison, but he explained his incarceration by telling an interesting story. Jlis crime was slashing the faceof his sweetheart Itii a knife and disfiguring disfig-uring her for life. The.strange part of it that, according to Cirme-netti, Cirme-netti, it was done at tbe girl's request. re-quest. Two years ago, ho sajs, he was e-mployed in tlio store of a wealtbyjeweleriiamed Francola In Florence, Italy. There he met the jeweler's daughter. Tfannettc, was eighteen yean old, dark-haired, black-eyed, a beau, tiful girl. Carmenettl fell in love and, a- the seriuel proved, hU affection af-fection was returned. The two continued con-tinued to see each other at the store but bad no opportunity for private conversation until one Sunday Sun-day evening, when Carmenettl escorted es-corted Xannelteto church. He then declared his passion, but Nannttte told him that although fcbe returned it there were two other suitors for her hand, both wealthy, mid her parents favored one cf them. Carmenettl finally went to his employer one day, and formally asked fur his daughter's liana. Francola refused, with oaths, w drove the young man from his pivs-ence, pivs-ence, dismissing htm also at uncu from his employment. 2annctte, as the story goes, told her father that she would marry Carmenettl and none other. Shewaslccked up In her room for a week, but linslly bribed her maid to carry a note to Carmenettl. The note arranged for a meeting in her father's garden. This speedily followed. She lold him the day for her marriage with hks onxoxious SUITOK liad been ret by her pareats and the only means of escape was to have her beauty spoiled. She begged Carmenettl to dlsflgdre her face, nud he reluctantly consented to do so. He made two cuts, one on each cheek. He says she bore the pain heroically, when her parents discovered her condition they were furlou, but the girl rerusl to tell who had disfigured her face. The maid, however, told of the delivery of the note, and Carmenettl' arrest, conviction and Imprisonment followed. fol-lowed. After his release, Xannette and ho were quietly married, and Carmenettl's journey to America was to preparea homo for his bride. Collector Erhardt will decldo his fate tomorrow. |