THE UNWRITTEN LAW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 204, 26 February 1912, Page 3

THE UNWRITTEN LAW.

TRAGEDY- NEAR .CHICAGO.' TOMWySI&N BEHEADS HIS ■-, f| wnJ and; HER, LOVER.

At jjenoslin, jWisconsin, a town on Lake Michrgato, dbb.ut fifty miles north of Chicago, ' murder has just come to J%ht'thr.ough the confession and arrest of a rich Italian merchant named, He informed the police'that, suspecting his wife and cousin, whose, name is the same as his own, he, Surprised them together, and killed them/,-. ,'

Marches? that, coming home suddenly after'announcing that he was going on. a,journey, .he found his wife and cousin mak'ing love, and the spectacle so enraged- him that he immediately took .his- revenge. He rushed-for-ward and.struck his cousin, foiling him to the-floor. -Jle'then hound, him with rope before thieves of his wife, who was too frightened to render her lover any assistance. He next bound his wife with a rope, and-going into the woodshed procured a.ldg of wood and an axe. He then deliberately placed his cousin and his wife; one after the other, on the log..andr beheaded them'with the axe. . ;

He buried the bodies in the cellar, and tried to burn the two heads. Marehesi declares that' lie has lived in the house since the murder, but the agonised death cries of the couple haye sounded in his ears ever since, and he could neither eat nor sleep.

The police immediately made search, and found the remains buried in the cellar. Since his arrest Marchesi has Rone raving mad, and declares that he is haunted by the ghosts of his victims.