STABBED IN A CONVENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2533, 21 June 1909, Page 6

STABBED IN A CONVENT.

A FEARFUL CRIME

Rome is considerably disturbed by the fearful crime of an atheist who went to a convent and stabbed a young crirl to death, afterwards taking Ins own life. Napoleon© Parbone, an old Garibaldian, who. played a prominent part in the political struggles of the ’7o’s and had since remained one ot the best-known Rcbublican figureheads in Italy, called at the Convent of the Twelve Stars, near the Farncse Palace, on a recent Saturday night. He requested from the Mother Superior an interview with a young, lady, Rainalda Ricciotti. When the girl descended to the parlor Parbone. without any prologue. drew a long dagger, and stabbed her five times in the breast, and tlic girl immediately sank to the floorParbone then turned, tlic weapon upon himself with incredible fury, and just as the Mother Superior Tllsll^ I JV to the room he dropped lifeless athwait the body of his victim. The Paibone and Ricciotti families had been on veyy intimate terms, but while theJattor were intensely Papal, 1 ™ « proud, himself an atheist by the grace of God.” , . Lately lie had been rendered inconsolable through the death of hm daug - ter, whose desire to embrace the Cath olic faith was attributable as he tan cied to her friend Rainalda s persuasioS’ which he had vehemently opposed lo the end. Rainalda was barely eighteen.