A CORSICAN TRAGEDY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2459, 14 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A CORSICAN TRAGEDY.

I Tut; details of a now CWsican drama are to hand from Ajaccio, At the assi/.es held lately in that place, a peasant nanisd Ca-asopraua, and his wife, Anna Maria, were accused of having made away with a millet-culled Martinctli, in a manner not unlike that which was adopted by the notorious Kennyrou family in Paris, a few years ago. Anna Maria Oasasoprana is a middle-aged woman, but still very beautiful, with diabolically brilliant eyes and pearly teeth. Her husband is a prematurely aged man, with a white heard, and is not very intelligent. The victim Martinetti was found lying dead in a cops.; neat- the village of Yillanova. His throat was cut in throe places, and his clothes were snaked in blood, some of which had even bespattered the door of a little forest hut ncJf tho spot where tho body lay. Martinetti had left his house in the early morning in order to go to his mill at Moro, audit is supposed that ho was met on his way thither by C'assoprana and his wife, who asked him for money, and on his refusal to give it killed him. Oasasoprana had frequently threatened to take revenge on Martinetti, who, he said, was always going after his wife. The principal witnesses were a namesake of the accused man, wdio saw Oasasoprana near the copse on the day when Martinetto was missed from home, and a fortuneteller, Maddalena Profetti, to whom the accused woman had said that she wanted to kill a notorious bandit who was pursuing her with his attentions. Both the male and female witnesses were threatened frequently after tho discovery of the crime by Oasasoprana and his wife, who said that they would kill them if they " blabbed'' to the gendarmes. The prisoners were both found guilty. The man was condemned to penal servitude for '2(1 years, and the woman m lifteeii.