AN ITALIAN TRAGEDY.
A very tragic story c mes from Naples. One night piercing shrieks were heard from (he house No. 5 of the Via Cape Tecchia, on the hei.hts of that city. On the neighbors running to the house, they saw a mar all bloody holding a dripping knife in his hand, standing on the door-sill. “ Do not kill me,” he said, “ for 1 have poisoned myself and have but a few minutes to live. On seeing the police approach, however, he made a rapid end to his days He placed the handle of the long knife co the wall and the point to his breast, and with a sudden rush forward he drove the blade into his heart, and fell dead before the horrified crowd. They then searched the house, at d found in an inner bedroom the bodies of his young wife and three cdildren, all barbarously' murdered. Their corpses were gashed frightfully. The wretched man, by name Nicolo Nixano, a chemist, is said by some to have com mitted the deed from hopelessness of obtaining bread for his children. Others say the jealousy of his wife prompted the terrible tragedy.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1064, 15 September 1882, Page 4
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194AN ITALIAN TRAGEDY. Dunstan Times, Issue 1064, 15 September 1882, Page 4
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