Show l A i TRAGIC Off 1 01 I ww The THet Stran Strange e Case of Gluse Giuseppe e ed 3 d dAlessandro Alessandro r Je andro Who After Love Ye it f for H His P Patrician Wife Wf H Had d J 9 15 1 e a 1 a 11 Turned to Loathing Killed tl the j Man She he Favored and I Ij Marred SM n r e j r Her if Beauty F Forever r. r 4 P. P r ff L n SC aY S 'S A d S' S Sk k t app N 4 tt J r.- r. tZ 1 i t lying In n iP ii n l Trait nit at the Wo ascertained aster ascer t t tamped place of ren I drove his his w p powerful motor car into the frail carriage that contained his liis hsUe wife Ue and Capt throwing them to the the ground s she he Ie rushed forward and slashed cheeks with a razor and then drew a pistol turned upon the tIle Captain am fired a bullet into hL hi r whose hose love lo for his bis I how how- ow can a man Wife lias turned to repugnance repugnance Mb has bas separated from her ller because of this utis antipathy antIpathy become so Jealous of another mans man's attentions attentions to to her Iter that lie he Still Ifill kill the one who nho is supplanting supplant supplant- ing him and mar forever the beauty that once had hall charmed him himl 1 All Rome Homo has bas been arguing over Oler this question in the last few weeks peeks The sob sob sister sister is unknown to the Roman press press but the gravest psychologists and most learned professors have filled pages s of the newspapers with pith Uh their discussions discussions' and analyses of the motives motives mo mo- tives lives that led to the fearsome tragedy that started it all aU The drama they have been heen discussing discussing discuss discuss- ing had as its principal actors Giuseppe Ginseppe Giuseppe Giu Gin DAlessandro four forty-four years of 8 age e who nho inherited property in the Abruzzi Abruzzi worth several hundred thousands thou thon- sands ands dollars Countess Anna DAlessandro DAlessandro DAles WAles sandro his Ms wife aged thirty six born horn wealthy in her own right beautiful daughter of an old family of Roman patricians and Capt Titto- Titto rio Fenoglio of the Royal Piedmont Fiedmont r r t lancers one Lancers one of the crack cavalry r regiments of the Italian Army of which Senator Fabrizio rizio Colonna Is Colonel son SOIL of Michele Fenoglio of TurIn a famous civil engineer nhoi who nho i had llad a prominent par part in boring the St. St Gotthard tunnel runnel and nephew of Gen wen r commander of the ninth Army Corps 3 COr s. s i APT FENOGLIO Is dead with a s C CAPT bu let through his brain Countess Countess Count Count- ess ass 1 AIna Anna Rana is slowly recovering from two terrible slashes s across her cheek made with a razor and Giuseppe 4 V DAlessandro an w who o fired the b bullet and cut cut the the- slashes is in the Regina Coeli pris Prison n having his sanity tested by bY by aU alienists b before fore being placed on trial 1 for or murder Countess Anna Ann Sal- Sal i It is said said that i l had had something of a reputation as asa i aj flirt dirt even before her marriage to DAlessandro In 1900 For Fori G Giuseppe Cay Rocco dAlessandro i aphis reason r reason ason th the lather father f ther was opposed to the matCh for foreseeing in the young womans woman's beauty beauty beau- beau r ty arid and large dowry only a source of future ro unhapPiness In the Abruzzi any auy i married woman who is seen alone alonet t i with a man other than her husband Is Isi i gui guilty ty of an unpardonable t or The Tho dashing young youns Roman CountESS Countess Countess Count Count- ess unaccustomed to the strict nor no no- no r tiona of the simple Abruzzi soon got herself e s f talked ab about ut around her husbands husband's hus- hus bands band's So she and home homo bands ancestral l' l to live In a ai her lier husband went away i villa OJ the shores of the Adriatic between between Pescara and Francavilla T They 1 y spent the season in Rome livIng living liv- liv Ing In an apartment at No del Just what happened to quench Giuseppe Giuseppe Giu Giu- pe d' d Alessandro's passion and to change it Is not noOt known But change it did and in time he came cameto cameto to to suffer from what seems to have been a morbid psychopathic repugnance repugnance nance nanc for lor his his wife For this he consulted con- con suIted the leading specialists They pronounced him physically sound but could do nothing to cure what they believed to be a disease of the mind The man sought solace In hi religion and passed long hours praying in chur church church- h- h es ca But nut he could not overcome his re- re On Nov 10 of last year he ho told hl his wife wIte of ot the change in his feelings ab ab- t. t Yr k solved her from any blame lame and offered to make such arrangements as would be agreeable to her even suggest suggesting ng that she divorce h him him n. n The Countess's father was sent for and the situation was explained to him He He- took his hist i t daughter home borne at once to the Palazzo Sa in Via del de Matters' Matters were put into the hands hand family lawyer who drew up formal separation papers and instructed an attorney in Geneva to prepare for Countess Annas Anna's Annas Anna's Anna's Annas An An- nas na's naturalization in Switzerland there being beins no divorce in Italy So intent intent in- in tent was DAlessandro on getting rid of her that in one De of his his' c colloquies with the lawyer he cried If she does not get a divorce I will ll kill her The Th unhappY husband already knew Capt Fenoglio of the crack cava cavalry ry regiment of R Royal a 5 Piedmont Piedmont L Lancers but had never shown a sign of Jealousy Jealousy jealousy Jeal jeal- or animosity toward him In fact only a few days before the separation separation separation sepa sepa- ration he and the captain w were r to together together to- to gether at the races where they jointly won won a big bet and celebrated it with with witha a jolly dinner at which the Countess and several friends were present The separation papers w were re submitted submitted submitted sub sub- to the President of the Civil and Penal Tribune Tribune- in Rome Rome- who tried to reconcile the pair failing in which he signed the formal decree on Dec 16 By its terms the whole her of dowry was returned to the Countess all aU the furniture of their apartment apartment awas was given to her together with the use of the apartment and garage and andi i it was expressly declared that neither would make financial demands any any- I upon the other The Countess took up lier Mier residence in the Sa family palace while DAlessandro went to to his his' country I I place in the Abruzzi On returning to t toRome toRome Rome he he took a room in the the Via Balbo I He had hat got rid of the w wife wife r who was wasso wasso so so abhorrent 10 him Surely he he ought I InoW II now to be happy h A And d yet yet The The- thought of her him Knowing her flirtatious nature he felt sure that she was b being c courted 0 u l' l t e d by some men But nut why should he care Wh What a t td d differ difference 1 f fer ence could her love affairs affairs' ma make k eto e- e to him now Ho HI had put her out of his life not because because because be be- cause he had ceased to love her her but because because because be be- cause cause his love lore had turned to loathing Why Whys s should h a u 1 d he worry if some someone someone someone one else was loving her Why should he care If another another another an an- other was filling filling filling fill fill- ing the blank blankin in her life that he had deliberately deliberately deliberately left That neurasthenia mind brooded ever over over her now that she was his no more moxe Jeal Jealousy took possession of ol his morbid brain The passion that had seemed so so dead ead and that he han haa sought to bury was was not dead but dormant dormant dormant dor dor- mant mant and in the face of this intuitively intuitively ly felt rivalry It put forth sprouts that grew amazingly with the rank luxuriance of a tropic fungus He frett fretted d over the possible doings of the woman he had loved until it became an obsession And this n newly germinating germinating germinating germi germi- passion was a blend of desire and anti hatred Psychologists are familiar with such cases A According cording to Prof thwarting will often ft make a seemingly seemingly seem seem- dead dead love spring Into Into- renewed life This among women he says but by byno no no means unusual among men Thwarting makes desir desire I more keen and when the heart Is Involved involved In in- in this desire o often ten rises to the dignity of Po a real state of ot anxiety ty invested in invested invested in- in I vested with all all- the attributes of morbid morbid morbid mor mor- bid anguish continues dIscussIng discussing discussing discuss discuss- dIscuss dIscuss- I ing this case In many neurasthenics this state of mind beco becomes es absolutelY absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab unbearable In those who have inherited an criminal anti-criminal tendency tendency tendency ten ten- dency th the only way to assuage their plan is suicide Natures that can imagine imagine im im- agine crime as something not utterly despicable or whose J personality is I I dominated by egoism prefer the suppression suppression suppression sup sup- I of whomsoever is the cause of the misfortune I DAlessandro hired detectives to watch his former wife They reported report report- ed to to him that almost almost- every every afternoon she went out driving in the suburbs with Capt Fenoglio in a one-horse one buggy Capt Fenoglio's regiment was stationed stationed stationed sta sta- sta- sta at Tor di Quinto Just outside the city and it was was- in this direction that the Ue drives took place One afternoon DAles DAlessandro andro followed followed fol fol- I lowed them himself He saw fOI 1 the time woman woman he had bad loved and cast aside asid Y e er r r Y Ya x a 5 r. r y But he ho did Giuseppe dAlessandro wealthy Roman Jan whoso whose sanity is being I I c care re and also tested and Countess Anna Annn the estranged wife he did worry whoso whose attentive cavalier caTalI r he murdered I happy and radiant in the company company of of another man If It his bis hate bate had bad been up to now this sight acted acted acted act act- ed like a wind blowing the embers into furious flames He waited two days before belore acting acting- How he lie spent those two days what red blood-red flowers bloomed on the shoots of th the tree he had believed tobe to tobe tobe be dead what storms of remorse despair despair despair de de- and passion racked his brain can only be surmised But nut on Christmas Eve he struck the blow of of vengeance in a way that shows methodical premeditation premeditation premeditation pre pre- meditation and grim determination H He He e dismissed his own chauffeur hired a big powerful car from rom a public public pub pub- lic garage and was driven out to Tor dl di Quinto about the hour when the Countess and the captain caplain were accustomed tomed tamed to meet When Then near tho place he sent the chauffeur home chauffeur home and took the steering wheel himself Then he sped down down the road road road-in in pursuit of the light buggy that contained all he hated upon earth Putting Putting Putting-on on speed he guided the car straight for the frail carriage He crashed into it turned it over and spilled its two two occupants occupants out upon the roadside stopping SLopping quickly quickly- DAlesandro DAlessandro DAlessandro DAles DAle sandro le Leaped ped from the he rushed car car car rushed athis athis at at- his wife drew a razor from his pocket and slashed her cheek twice Pocketing Pocket Pocket- Pocketing ing the razor he drew a pistol turned on Capt Fenoglio and fired a a. a bullet into his eye Soldiers ran from the cavalry barracks barracks barracks bar bar- racks nearby picked up tho the victims and rushed them In motor mot motor mo mo- t tor r car to a hospital The officer was was' dead before they reached there thore Other Othor r rI v I soldiers s soldiers soldiers' l liers arrested I DAlessandro sandro who said quietly I wanted to spoil her beauty When Wien interrogated by a a Magistrate DAlessandro broke down and we wet t. t. t Calming himself he hI said he was satIsfied satis saris fied fled with his his' work Capt Fenoglio had a military fune ral at which h Prince Fabrizo Colonna his Colonel made a touching address i using these words Vittorio Fenoglio io thou wast wart strick stricken en down as if it by lightning a a. victim of human aberration May universal pity aCCOmpany accompany thee Into the eternal infinite and may God receive thy gentle soul No tears team are shed for him who dies gloriously fighting the I enemy of Italy but thou Vittorio Fen Fen- Fenoglio Fenoglio hast all our tears for thou for thou art torn from us by an act of atrocity that whatever be the future verdict nothing can ever ever cancel from the st st. story of human human iniquity Capt fellow officers know him to have been the tho soul of honor and nothing can make them b beli ve that there there was anything dishonorable in his attentions to the off cast-off w w fe fa of his erstwhile friend A bunch of crimson son roses was pla placed on his coffin by a messenger from iliew the ilie w woman man he had loved Some mysterious ous hand removed them When When his Si body reached Turin a second bunch ot of fl crimson roses sent by her was placed upon his bier Again they wore re- re moved Meanwhile the psychologists psychologist arc are ai analyzing an- an the aberrations of D D' les andro an- an dro dros mind and Rome is bearing hearing h about brain storms torms |