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Show A Drunken Italian's Terrible Deeds Chableston, December 30. At Mount Pleasant, a village near this city, to-day, a terrible tragedy was enacted. E. Geretti, an Italian, was beating his wife when his brother, S. Gerretti, and James P. Colburn, a well known insurance agent of this city, interfered in the woman's behalf. The wife with her four little children escaped from the infuriated husband, who, incensed at the interference, crept up behind Colburn and fired three shots at him, one of the balls lodging in his spine and inflicting what is thought to be a fatal wound. After shooting shoot-ing Colburn, Geretti fled to bis farm, about a -quarter of a mile distant, pursued by the town marshal and posse. He locked himself up in his house, and the posse being unarmed, un-armed, defied them to arrest him." While his pursuers were deliberating, - Geretti placed the muzzle of his pistol in his mouth and blew out his brains. |
