Horrible Tragedy

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 136, 16 June 1888, Page 3

Horrible Tragedy

j A Vienna correspondent writes : — One of the most brutal murders ever : sent on record in Italy was committed last week in Venice --a city little used to crimes of such a singularly revolting kind. Giovanni Bossi, a young artisan, had it seems, fallen desperately in love with wife's sister Anna dalla Giustina. As the girl steadily repulsed his advances, to conquer this absorbing passion he left Venice with his wife for Genoa, hoping to find work there. In this apparently he failed, and recently returned to Venice sending his wife to her father's house, while he went to that occupied by her . sister Anna. It was early morning when he crept up the stairs and found her alone in a bedroom on the fourth floor. Her brother had gone to work. Foiled in a violent attempt upon her i honor, he drew a revolver and shot ! her full in the face with it. Then I horribly disfigured as she was, he flung her sheer over the balcony on to the street pavement below. As she lay lifeless on the stones he fired three more shots at her, and then in a frenzy of rage threw on to her body copper buckets, knives, a chopper, and everything which his madness could convert into a missile. Failing to blow out his brains with the revolver, he gashed his throat with a razor and cut open the veins of his wrists, standing out on the balcony while the blood streamed down, and calling to the horrified spectators : E Vulrtmo sangue into !" " E Uultimo sangue mio !" Before the police could arrive he was a corpse. Letters he left on the table show that the murder was a premeditated one due to dishonorable passion for his beautiful sister-in-law, who had invariably treated him with coldness and disdain.