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Show Man Is Claimed By Two Families 5 Odd Case of Dual Personality Personal-ity That Has Puzzled the Italian Courts. Rome. The extraordinary case of disputed personality in which a mystery mys-tery man Is claimed by two families Is now approaching Us climax in the forthcoming final decision of the Florence Flor-ence Court of Appeals. For more than fmir years the strange, case has Interested ihe entire country and already the Italian courts have pronounced twice on the affair. The point in dispute is whether u certain former inmate of the Collegno hospital for the insane is Prof, Giulio Canella, Italian ollicer reported missing miss-ing during the war, or Mario Bnineri. former printer and sometime jailbird of Turin. "Recognized" by Sons. The wives of Mario Urunerl anil Professor Canella both swear that the "unknown" Is their husband. lie has been "recognized" by the sons of both the original Brunerl and Canellfl families. fam-ilies. Many relations of both families have sworn before the courts that he belongs to them. A long list of persons, per-sons, Including the bishop of Verona, numerous lawyers and professional men, and even the editor of the Vatican Vat-ican organ, the Osservatore Romano, Count Delia Torre, have Intervened in the case and declared that they "recognize" "rec-ognize" the man either as Canella or Brunerl. All this mass of evidence Is contradictory, contra-dictory, but the two decisions of the Italian courts have ruled that the unknown un-known Is Mario Brunerl. During the various phases of the protracted case Italy has divided itself it-self into two camps, known as the "Brunerians" and the "Canellists." The affair has been made the subject of vaudeville sketches. Cartoonists have wallowed in it. Advertisement w-riters have followed its possibilities closely. Bets have been made on it, and men have gone to fancy dress dances in pairs as Canella and Rru-neri, Rru-neri, dressed alike. It has been a joke, a perplexity, a last resort in conversation, almost a post-war problem. prob-lem. The "unknown" maintains he is Prof. Giulio Canella of Verona and is at present living with Mrs. Canella, by whom he has had two children during dur-ing the years that the controversy has lasted. Bruneris Are Poor. The Bruneri family are poor people, the Canellas well-to-do folks, but more than one member of the North Italian bar has given his services gratis to the Brunerian cause out of conviction that the "mystery mail" is really the ex-printer. Mario I'.nmeri. Kvery kind uf expert has been employed em-ployed in the case psychiatrists, psychologists, psy-chologists, finger print experts, detectives, detec-tives, calligrapliists, hut the evidence is always contradictory. About four years ago Rruneri's mnlher received a letter from the lunatic lu-natic asylum of Collegno. near Turin, purporting to come from her son, which declared that he was detained there and asking for financial assistance assist-ance and a lawyer.. He had been missing miss-ing for some time. He was in the hospital hos-pital as an unknown suffering from lack of memory, and as the original Bruneri was wanted by the police, the Brunerl family went cautiously about proffering their assistance to the unknown un-known and exposing his Identity. Shortly afterwards a photograph of the mystery man was published in the press, whereupon Mrs. Giulio Canella immediately recognized him as her husband, supposed to have been lost in , the war. Soon after this the Bruneri family visited Ihe "unknown" at Collegno. They at once "recognized" him, his son calling him "papa" and tils wife and his brother showing every sign of thrilled recognition. The "unknown," however, grew cold and told the Bruneris they were mistaken. mis-taken. He was Prof. Giulio Canella and no one else. He has Insisted on being called Canella ever since, despite de-spite the findings of the courts and the protests of the Bruneri family and their Innumerable supporters throughout through-out the'eountry. S Eeer Mug as Weapon 'S ;i; Banned in Bavaria : Munich. Boor stuius. ash .j. X trays, table cutlery, soup howls J and other normal fitments of : X restaurants must be removed J out of sight whenever a political y party, hires a beer garden or ,t. y restaurant for a mass meeting, according to a police order Is- .j. sued and effective throughout y Bavaria. y X The measure has been taken, X It Is said. In the interest of pub- y X lie safety, movable objects hav- X y ing been found loo tempting y X when some point of an argn- X y nient needs driving home. There y .J. is nothing like an empty beer : mug in the hands of a pot- .j. valiant citi'.en for silencing a re- .j. t fraclory opposition, and a good : j. ash tray goes u long way. y |