Show II Vendetta Vendetta- Up to Date II A murder trial which Is hi soon foon to take I place PIneo In Jn Corsica will be the climax x of or one of oC tho lie oddest cas cases s of vendetta with the tho strangest st up dale f features on record The central figure Is IH Giuseppe Pauli Paoli who killed a man nun manin manin in a a. quarrel come Gome yen years year's ago was WO arrested ai ai- rested tried and sent to New Caledonia Caledonia Cale Cale- donia to serve out a n lon long sentence of deportation In some unexplained way Paoli es escaped escaped es es- front from the Franca Franch convict con settlement settlement settle settle- ment some eighteen months mouths ago ugo and forthwith made malIc his wa wiy homo Kunio to Cur Cor UI sica No 00 information of uC his escape W was I communicated to time the authorities Ji of or the tho J island anti and they y had hat no nu of or hl Ills his I I presence as aM bo ho In lay hId bid In tile the or dense denso second growth thickets which I skirt tho the forests In the mountainous regions legions of oC Corsica Ills presence wa was known n only to two or three friends friend Paoli had returned to Corsica to lo perform perform perform per per- form what was in his hili eyes elS almost almott a religious duty This was to tn take lako upon a former comrade whoso whose testimony tes tes- testimony 14 limon only had hud cau his One day y J he c surprised t the tho o t traitor altor as I no he considered mm him on a n ely road and shot Milot him dead nhen Ihen the bOd body wn was discovered suspicion sus sus- fell at nt one once upon Paoli's two brothers brother It wap plain from r-om r the outset that the murder wa was not committed tl for or robber robbery and they hell wr tho anI only people pi known wn to be in the Island who olio had tiny any grounds for or a vendetta against time the dead man moan The They were arrested Some Seme circumstantial circumstantial circum circum- evidence was wan unfavorable una to them the and they were wore held heM fur for trial with their pro prospects of or clearing themselves sll ra rather thee black Then a countryman stepped one day Into the offices of or tilt the prefecture clure at 4 Sir said he to the official who re received re- re him I tot come conic from rom Paoli who hur humbly asks for tor or an on Interview with tho time prefect What hH I Paoli be lie was asked The depot depo ted Paoli But hes he's in Now Caledonia AVe We 0 cant can't 1 go there then No la hes he's In Corsica and anti he must talk with thou prefect alone and soon Tell him po so o The countr countryman bowed politely and anil w went nt out Some days datI later the prefect started on a n tour of oC Inspection He lie drove dro droIn In an I open carriage and was accompanied h byone by byone i lono one of his bis councilors and a u m military III tn 1 surgeon II They had not the faintest Idea t that t anything unusual was to happen J and were enjoying the drive o us the road led Jed I them Into a dense patch o of woods A sudden shout caused the tho coachman to I rein up and the party part found themselves cr cO covered d b by four Cour carbines The nun who hind had culled called at the pre pru- e a n few days approached and ordered tho the councilor to step p t out of oC tho the carriage Covering CO tho the with his hili gun the man ratan explained with cool Paoli Is there just behind the tho bush bush- es Cs He lie wishes to speak to the prefect alone Advise his excellency to go 10 o to tu I him for tor or if IC be lie refuses I shall bo be obliged to o kill you Ills HIM excellency's safety Is IH i I guaranteed Tho The prefect didn't t like It much but buthe ho he 10 went What hat cla else elso could he lie do Ho lie found bund paoli M x IittI way Ca flanI ona the rood road Signor r Prefect said th the outlaw I have Im t taken k n this step ut p In lu order tp tin pro pro- ent vent 3 a- a Judicial mu murder You propose I I Io to o condemn my brothers They ire arc rc In- In I I. I escaped cupoo from prison am tho the a avenger who sent pent t. t my j cr J e 9 I tJ ut to his last accounting In order that there thero Inn may be no doubt as to m my Identity Identity Iden Itlen- I tit you will photograph me at once When the picture Is h developed de er e every every everyone one will wll recognize me But Dut how am I to take the picture rho The sl signor nol doctor who accompanies s you ou In all your our journeys s 's never ne moves mo without his camera Just call him him lIim here The picture e was taken On the strength of ot It Jt Paoli's Paoli s Mothers brothers were lib lib- Dt Despite vigorous pursuit succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- In Je keeping out of oC the hands hantl of ot the gendarmerie for a year ear longer Then he lie became lIcame himself a victim o of the vendetta A sweetheart whom bo lie overboard overboard over over- board fur for or un another recently betrayed hits his hiding places and amid he was taken laken un- un un unawares and all captured Ho Ito Is in jail In all and his trial Is b to begin next m month out 11 |