A NEAPOLITAN CUSTOM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 23 October 1882, Page 2

A NEAPOLITAN CUSTOM.

1 The of tha Londpn ipimn at Naples, wnting on August 2|)d, says": -"A remarkable (Vial tnolTplace'last week, before the Coui;t of Assise,' terminating with tha condemnation of Yincezo BP(} in(jtt)pr. the forme): fo Jjar<} lajior for lilpQ, the latter to f seclusion" |of three years. Jt js upwards pf a year sjnpe Iho'daughter of Carolina, oj]§ of t{ig beauts of was iprrjei} tfi & eaijor pajipd flujaeppa Espositp, TJ|e tjsjjge of tlip lower classpj of tho gentry, hftye heed maclo in vain to suppress, is fqi'llie brjdpgroom to visit his mother.in-law oh tho morning following the marriage, and I Esposito m reminded of it, Tho visit' was not, however, psjl!, nor was it after waiting a fortnight, The mother-in-law then, befloijiing furious, complained to her son,' urging h£fnf hi avenge.tlja honor o{ his sister and"of tho family. Wintai Garguillo tbereufinni went ito his/sister's hou6o and waited for the husband, who, oq his arrival, welcomed htm, and bogged hiin 'to s'tav and tjinoJ Tho that Vinbbzo, drawing a knife W] irig himself on liis'brotlieKln-laW, staliße d him and laid him dead lit liis'feet, ''Tho ! result of the tnaj after a delay of upward!) a year, vyns as I haye narrated. Vdo pi; enter into other "(je'.'ajlj of|he custom, the omissioij of which vyasso fatal. They may he easjly '^LvpD' 'clgpical influenop cannot suppress it,' Thp fipppj; of a family js sypppspd to bg connected with ifi" "