A CORSICAN VENDETTA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 77, 17 August 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

A CORSICAN VENDETTA

13 PERSONS MURDERED. London papers contain reports of a bitter and long-standing Corsican venletta. On May :!1 two men. Paterni and I'eretti. were acquitted at tta.stia on a charge of murder. The story is one of the most terrible vendettas known in Corsican history. Since ISBS two families. Saiiguinefti and Paoli. have been at feud in Ven/.olasca. near Bastia. Till the present day 13 members of both families have been shot, and there have been il attempts at murder that have proved unsuccessful. In October. 1011, two members of the Paoli family. Petrignani and Albert ini. were so territie'd by the continued menaces of the Sanguinetti family that they decided to emigrate to America. They had proceeded a mile from the village when seven shots rang out. Petrignani was -hot dead. Albertini pretended that he had been killed, and. bv remaining motionless, was enabled to recognise his assailants. Of these two. Paterni and Pcretti. were acquitted a short time ago. The vendetta will continue till the Paoli* are exterminated, for the most famous bandit of all. l)omiuii|iie Sanguinetti. is still wandering at large and terrifying the whole of the countryside.