A HORRIBLE REVENGE.

Kumara Times, Issue 811, 7 May 1879, Page 4

A HORRIBLE REVENGE.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Advertiser says :—“ The song and air of Ariad’s gondolier were lately disturbed by a hideous spectacle. The gondola struck against something which looked like a human head, yet it was sans eyes, nose, all the muscles were laid bare—yet this was the face of one who had once been a man and still breathed. He was supported by two bladders, and when the gondoliers hauled him cut of the water they found both his arms and both legs were broken, and much nibbled by the fish, who had feasted on him below as the birds were above. He was taken to the hospital, where he died without a sign ; but it was known that he was Tadeldo, who had been in the service of one Parmaschetti, of whose beautiful young wife he had become enamoured. She complained to her husband, who scourged him from his door; but he returned, and flew at the woman with his knife, She prayed hard for mercy, but he hacked and hewed her to death. Her little.girl had witnessed the whole scene from under the bed, and on her testimony Parmaschetti went with his two brothers on their’way to the Venetian vendetta. They found their prey crouching in a foul lair. They broke both his legs, both his arms, then oiled his face and head, fastened two bladders under his broken arms, aud turned him adrift off the Lido. There the wretch drifted like a fat weed from Lethe’s wharf for three long days and nights in helpless agony ; the gulls picked at his eyes, his ears, laid his cheeks and his sicall bare, and slimy things did'crawl with rags up from the slimy sea over Aim, and the sli my things lived on, and so did he, as the fish tore at him from- below. Parmuachetci and his brothers avowed their crime, for which they have been sentenced by the Ninetiah tribunals each to ten years’ hard labor. The whole Venetian public has petitioned for a commutation of the sentence, and so strong is the feeling for the prisoners on the Piazzr San Marco that the Government will probably mitigate the penalty.