MURDER OF CAPTAIN FADDA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1878, 1 March 1880, Page 3

MURDER OF CAPTAIN FADDA.

For the murder of Captain Fadda in Italy Pietro Oardinali has been, as the assassin, condemned to death ; Madame Fadda, as an accomplice in the assassination, to penal servitude for life; and Antonietta Carrozxa, as intermediary between Oardinali and Madame Fadda, has been acquitted on account ef her acting under fear of Oardinali and being unacquainted with the purport of her errands. The verdict is considered too lenient to Oarrozza, and excessively lenient to Madame Fadda, but for whom Cardinal! would never have dreamed of murdering the captain. Oardinali received his sentence without the slightest emotion, confident apparently that in some island prison he will fare more tolerably than as an equestrian acrobat. Madame Fadda, on hearing her penalty, looked towards Oardinali, and exclaiming, "Assassino ! hai rovinato mia famiglia. Povera, mia madre ! ” (Assassin ! you have ruined my family. Oh, my poor mother !), fainted. The trial lasted a month. The Neapolitan advocates for the defence, by their volubility, their histrionic gesticulation, and their sensational appeals, evoked from a Northern Italian the remark, “ There is more than one acrobat in the Court.” The tribunes, crowded with ladies, who sat in eager audience through all the evidence relating to Captain Fadda’s pre-marital wounds, has inspired the poet Oarducci with the theme of a trenchant satire, in which he likens them to the Roman matrons feasting their eyes with the fleshly demonstrations of the Colosseum. No English lady assisted at a trial which revealed such hideous depths of immorality in Southern Italy, and proved how small is the mental interval between the ladies of Pontifical and of Pagan Rome.