CORSICAN VENDETTA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 411, 16 July 1908, Page 4

CORSICAN VENDETTA.

A real Corscian vendetta lately threw the population of Pout Dulas, a suburb of Toulon, into the wildest commotion. The deserted wife of a tailor named Rizzi who had taken under his protection a pretty dark-eyed Corsican girl of 19 named Annonciade Paoletti, formerly in his service, smarting under the jeers of the guilty pair at herself and her children, followed them into the street with a revolver and discharged five shots, one of which passed through the girl’s body. Annonciade expired shortly after receiving the fatal wound. Mme. Rizzi, who is also a Corsican, when arrested made desperate efforts to assail her husband, who had escaped the bullets aimed at him. Tater on the father and mother of the murdered girl, on going to the police station to identify the body, met Mme. Rizzi emerging from the examining magistrate’s room. Both at once attacked her, the father with a revolver, which he snatched from his wife, the latter with a poiguard. Of five shots fired by Paoletti three took effect and the woman is not expected to live. It is reported that her relatives will now pursue the vendetta and avenge the death.