EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE MURDER.

South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2061, 1 November 1879, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE MURDER.

Deeds of cutting and maiming and murder are reported daily by tbe journals of Southern Italy. In Naples the other day two youths, 15 and 18 years of age respectively, were joking in a street when the elder _ slapped the younger one, who drew his knife and stabbed his antagonist to the heart. This was no uncommon thing ; the knife or pistol is in every man’s or boy’s hand; but the sequel deserves notice. The father of the victim was at first maddened by anger, but, suppressing his rage, he went with perfect calmness to the father of the murderer, and asked him to walk a few paces with him. Seeing that he was under such perfect self control, no suspicion was awakened and the invitation was accepted. On arriving at a certain spot they halted and the injured father, addressing the othei’, said, “ Here you die for your son/’ at the same time plunging his knife into his body three times. “Wo are in Naples,” says a journalist, “ yet we might also fanc} r ourselves in Corsica. People in Southci’n Italy become familiarised with the use of the knife and the pistol from the boy-hood, and it is not surprising that the shedding of blood, except on the scaffold, comes to be looked on as a matter of indifference.