A ROMANTIC STORY.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1925, Page 1

A ROMANTIC STORY.

ClIiL SHOOTS BANDIT

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LONDON. Sept. AO. The "Daily KxpressV Vienna correspondent says; A romantic story was unfolded at the trial ol .Mercia ('arnieia. arrested oil Sept, f*ll l . tor the murder of Todor Panizza. >pectators at the High Court were -pell1, omid while the fails were disclosed. Tin- prisoner ('arnieia is a yuing beautiful exquisitely dres-ed Bulgarian

ej, |. hut she is dying Ol Clllsllllipl ion. She did not attempt to delciid ber-ell. admitting that she had -ought the friendship of the murdered man in order to avenge her country. The dead man. Todor Panizza was a well known Macedonian bandit, who treacherously shot, Boris Saratolf. a Bulgarian politician. while Saratofi was bidding him adieu on the doorstep ol fNiratofl •- hotl.-'e. Mercia (arnieia. with the aid of friends, planned to avenge Saratolf hv killing Panizza in similar circumstances. She got herself invited to dinner at Panizza's house on Angie; Bth. hut she was unable to carry out her plan, so she followed him to the Opera lloii-e. where she hired an adjoining box to his. She tired shots into Panizza’s neck, while he was watching Henrin Islam's play “Pen (IvutV . .

"When arrested Mercia (‘arnieia was found to be deperntely ill with tidat-cillo-is. She was taken to a -auaiorium. ami wa- with difliculty brought to trial. Tin- prosecution states that she i> a tool of the Bulgarian Government., and that she is venerated m Bulgaria just as Charlotte Cordav is in I- ranee. The opening of the trial to-day w delayed tor three hours while t-'< spectator- were searched for hom.>s the Army authorities fearing an at tempt, at a rescue. Calmlv pleading guilty the gtCaruicia accused Panizza ot accepttnv bribes from Servia. >he said that . Panizza always had a powerful botlj ouard. she was obliged to become ■ friend of his family, but her action ti wounding Pauizza’s wife was madver teilt. mama*