A Woman's Revenge.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4364, 28 December 1882, Page 2

A Woman's Revenge.

A report of the proceedings before the Tribunal of Naples gives the history of a fearful crime which has just been brought before them. It is called the " Ternaron of. Mariavella,'' a little town* ship not far from that city. The case was tried with closed doors, showing, says the writer of the article, an exaggerated regard for public morality, where such romances as " Pot~bouil!e " are sold by the thousand. A few facts of infidelity well known in Mariavella, Assunta de Angelis left her husband in the spring of 1881, and passed three months with her lover, Giuseppe Minervini, in Naples. Abandoned by him at last, she returned to the house of her husband, who received her once more, and both went to live in Naples. In the autumn of last year Assunta heard that her lover was going to be married, and sent for him. On his approaching the house, she wared a handkerchief in welcome, and received him with smiles. A short time after, a woman (Assunta) rushed out of the house brandishing a razor, from which she licked drops of blood, and crying out, "Madonna, help me, help me! They have killed him in my house." Giovanni di Lorenzo, the husband, also fled, throwing down a long dagger. In the instruction of the case it was decided that, though terrible wounds had been inflicted by the razor, the mortal blow was given by the dagger. The doors of the Court were opened when the advocates addressed the audience, and, as usual, " splendid " speeches for the defence were made. Admitting that the mortal blow had been struck by the husband, the crime, it was contended, was not his, but of the Irresistible—a theory adopted by the jury, and Giovanni di Lorenzo was liberated the same evening. Assunta de Angelis, on the contrary, was condemned to ten years' hard labor with circonstanas attennaute as a necessary complice. " Yet," continues the journalist, " she had nothing done more than gives cuts of the razor on the head, the forehead, and behind the ears. Do you not see that she endeavorod only to deface Miner?iai, as all betrayed lovers, do in Naples ? This wss omitted by the prosecution, and the forgetfuiness costs Assunta ten years' of hard labor."—Our Paris Letter.