A BLOOD THIRSTY VENDETTA

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1929, Page 5

A BLOOD THIRSTY VENDETTA

MURDER AVENGED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) PARIS, February 28. A bloodthirsty vendetta was revealed at Bastia Corsica in the trial of Madeline Mnjicini, who was sentenced to life : imprisonment for assisting to murder her father and brothers, whom she accused of betraying her lover Romanetti, the so-called king of the brigands. The latter established himself'at Mancini’s house in 1917, but his brutality had reached a. climax in 1925, when he was ambushed and murdered. Madeline accused her father and brothers of the crime and fled from home and joined the bandits, offering the lender, Perpettini, her love, if he would avenge Romanetti’s death. Perpettini agreed. The bandits surrounded Mancini’s farm house and summoned the father and the brothers to come out and they were shot as they issued from the doorway. Madeline, having watched the slaughter from a balcony, embraced Perpettini who was still covered with the victim’s blood. Three women, the wives of Madeline’s brothers, became demented at the sight of their husband’s deaths. Two of Madeline’s accomplices were sentenced and three acquitted . Perpettini was killed in August.