ITALIAN HUSBAND'S CRIME.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 5

ITALIAN HUSBAND'S CRIME.

TRIAL ENDS IN ACQUJ.TTAL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Paris, January 25. The Italian confectioner Facenda, who shot his wife at the Gare ,du Nord on September 4 last, and killed her lover, Vacca, has been acquitted. Facenda was in business in Glasgow. Having heard that his wife, who had come to Paris on business, had been seen in company with another Glasgow confectioner, an Italian named Vacca, came straight to Paris from Scotland, and haunted tho Gare du Nord until he met the couple together upon one of the platforms.

Tho station was filled with bustle in preparation for tho departure of the Bou-logne-Folkestone third-class express, by which Vacca and Signora Facenda intended to _ return to England. Vacca, who was only eighteen, was just taking his ticket and was standing in a qucuo of people, with Signora Facenda at his side, when a dark, well-dressed man was seen hurrying across the station pushing the people rapidly aside in his eagerness to reach the ticket office.

Signora Facenda was the first to see him. Uttering a piercing cry, she took a step forward to warn her companion, but ho and her husband wero already face to face.

Before tho spectators could interveno Facenda had shot his rival, and then he deliberately fired his revolver again at his wife as she turned to flee. Facenda then stood staring at the two bodies at his feet, -until ho was seizad.by a- policeman and disarmed.

At the police station lie stated that he was forty-four years old and his wife thirty. They camo from Glasgow, whoro they had a confectioner's shop. Thenmarriage life had not been a happy one.