ITALIAN SOCIETY SCANDAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3181, 29 March 1911, Page 9

ITALIAN SOCIETY SCANDAL.

A COUNTESS ARRESTED

The Milan correspondent of the £c l)ailv Chronicle” says:—A society scandal, wherein a beautiful young countess of Irish origin plays the leading part, excited Bologna, on January, on January 17. Seven years ago, during a long sojourn in the British Isles, Count Raff-aele Vinci, who belongs to one of the most ancient and wealthy families of F’ernio, near Ancona, met a charming, tail, blonde girl in Dublin, whose father is an officer, in the British Army. Despite the opposition of their respective families, the youthful couple married, in consequence of which step the count’s father bequeathed the lion’s share of his immense property to a nephew. The marriage turned out unhappily through incompatibility of tamper, aiid )the count became madly jealous o-f the suspicions attentions which the bride’s beauty attracted. A separation followed, and the previous day the count and countess, arranged to discuss a financial settlement with lawyers at Bologna. Shortly , after midnight the most. fashionable hotel in that city was thrown into a fever of excitement by the appearance of a squad of police and carabiniers, who, guided by the suspicious count, proceeded to an apartment on the first floor, which had been engaged about half an hour subsequent to the Oountess Vinci’s arrival that evening. Lieutenant MarselTa, the occupant, and the countess were immediately arrested, and marched through the streets of this old-world city in the still hours of the morning and shut up in the barracks.