THE END OF A CORSICAN VENDETTA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 312, 31 October 1888, Page 4

THE END OF A CORSICAN VENDETTA.

Tjik Corsican bandit Rocchini was executed a few weeks ago in the public square at Sartenca, Corsica. Precautions had been taken against the possibility of an attempt being made to rescue him at the las^, moment, or to save him from the ignominy of a public execution by shooting him when he appeared on the scaffold. The crowd which had assembled to witness the execution is described iu-. enormous. Rocchini was 24 years of age. His career ot crime commenced by a vendetta with the Taflani family. One day A Rocchini Killed a Dog belonging to a Taflani. Subsequently a Taflani killed a Koechini, nnd then a Hocchini killed a Taflani. The raidelta was kept up till the two families wcic reduced to one 1 epiesenfc ( »ti\ c each. The man executed determined to kill the last Taffaui, to avenge all the members ot his iamilv that had fallen victims to the hand of the TaHani. One day he met a young woman named Julie and was so Influenced by her Beauly that, despite the danger, he icinained in t>>c neighbourhood for a con-Herable time. He watched loi favourable opportunities, when she was tending her goat* in occluded ppot-, to declare his love froi hei . Ili^ addresses weie. however, rejected with scorn, and -Julie was warned by her neighbours that the allaii would cci t.iinly end badly if she continued to herd hei goat- on the mountains. Bomg a snon^-minded young woman, dcspisiner the dangei, she took no heed of the advice given hei. But one day she returned home deathly pale. The bandit had again presented "him.-elf before her, and had threatened To Kill Her if She Would Not Marry Him. .Julie had no one to protect hut, her mother being hei onl> living lelatne. .She begged her mother at once to rind her a husband who wojild protect hei against Itocchini. Arrangements weio soon made ioi Julie's wedding with a stalwart blacksmith, but the marriage never took place. A few days betoie the ceiemony was to have been celebiated Julie once more found hcrselt conhonted by Hocchini. He again asked her whether she had made up her mind to be hi;-. On leeching the reply 'Never,' the b->ndit deliberately shouldered his rifle, ,'md shot the poor gill. She wa<- not quite dead, but Kocchini. drawing a pistol, put it to her ear and blew out her brain*. He was sentenced to death for thi-> and other murders, all of which he confessed to the Public Prosecutor befoie being guillotined.