mm death at the team
“SMWhaau-mcdoon—
emu-shin speculation as to their
More. mmmumm
“titanium“ inlet krone-
7 motor curious about the phenomenon
7dtwoolotersboundtngetheroothatwhile
their-5W were never“ Dm-
mthoy were about one. are shins M
Mien to m nixteen-year—old girls—or
In. the: one eixteen-year—old girth—Violet
“may tuned who-elaborate in San
.Wofil‘m
m twoundoubtedly will replace in
. “public mind Boon and omen. who have
M died. 'l'helrhodiee are joined “ether
in!» hose-ct thesplne Just as those oi the
7 _‘8hmeoo7 Twlua.” in this respect their
“normality is identical with that of EM
Ind- Chang. the original Siemens Twins.
Vhd-Llctually were natives of Siam and
when Barnum made famous in the last
century.
LMore remarkable. however. than Rosa
' ans Jaws, Violet and Daisy are, with the
exception of the Joining of their bodies, two
wdistinctly separate young women. Violet.
L whose hair is dark, is inclined to be quiet.
isouite often moody and has no use for
the attentions of the opposite sex. On the
other band,'Daisy, who is almost a blonde.
is very vivacious, has. it is said, several ad-
mirers and is declared to be an outrageous
flirt.
Remarkahly interesting is the fact that
this true pair of young ladies are proficient
dancers. 'One cannot move unless the other
follows. one may never go where the other
is not along. In fact, one could not taken.
step unless the‘other steps also. And yet
they have learned to dance so skillfully
that they are never without dancing part-
ners. Of course, they can have but one
partner at a time—one for the two or them.
But they have a way of twining thelruarms
around this fortunate young man in such
a- way that they can go through all the
figures just as lively as if there were. only
one pair of feet instead of two pair keep—
ing step with the male dancing partner.
Violet is very fond of cards, checkers and
dominoes. Daisy cares very little for
either of these games, but does occasion-
ally enjoy a game of auction bridge. With
their admirW‘Llehoaiie them they fro
quently play separate games, Daisy playing
bridge, Violet! laying checkers.
L Both girlikli k to read and both are fond
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ROME. Saturday.
N the Rome Court of Assizes a blind
I man is on trial for his life. The au-
thorities declare that four years ago
he murdered his wife. But for four years
this blind man has amazingly defied the
authorities to prove it.
Ignazlo Mesoues, the accused, is becom-
ing the Landru of Italy. and the “Mystery
of the Lungo‘tevere Marzio," as Home has
filled the case for four years, is develop-
. log into One of the strangest cases in crim-
inai records
~ The mystery was born before dawn Jan-
nary 4 1918, when Emilio Metri, walking
along the Lungotevere Marzio toward the
,fI‘iher. saw on the ground, the dim oz: :
L lines of a body. Approaching he discov—
ered the form to be that of a young woman.
prone to the cobblestones, ' her arms
Lats-eight down at her sides. There was a
hole in her temple, where the blood had
clotted. By her side was a revolver, an
for several hours.
The police discovered calling cards and
letters in the woman’s handbag, all in
fie, name Maria Reteliini. There was
animoney in the purse and the girl was
rather poorly dressed.
. Two or three hotelkeepers in the neigh-
mums oi the Lungotovere Mania, which
input a good neighborhood at any hour of
.me day, identified the corpse as that at a
mail morn il‘dine', who had patronized their
“deducing the three or four days before.
The. girl was buried as a suicide.
At the lime this obscure little tragedy
occurring. a wealthy Roman, the Com-
udhdatore Attilio Simonetti, and his wife
mu seeking their daughter Bice, who
fit! bran lit a great sorrow into their
in“. When she was 15 she had fallen un-
the spell o! a. strange man, ignazlo
Wen. halt vaLian. hall Italian,,who
L ‘ wen nearly 40 and who had’come to
min/their house to recover from a career
9!, dissipation. This Mosones had moved
ilkmty circle of society. from the highest
on than he was going blind.
not the girl. was fascinated. >
rude her parents protested, as this ranci-
nation continued, but she was not to be in-
finance!!- J’ost hetero she became of age
stoked her fortune and reputation and
th Mesoues. Her parents then
to their marriage.
enough for the Simonettis to
W married to a blind man
the“ tabulation, bug the trag-
not end there. Mesones, alter his
continued to see Maria do An-
WWI! had been associated
In later 7
71550 the lowest. and had an ugly reputation."
oi’ the movies. Each 0! them writes an
entirely dilierent handwriting from the
other. They romp and play around the
grounds of their cozy home in Fort Worth
just as much as any children. and in fact
are much sought after as playmates by
the other young girls of the neighborhood.
They move about with marvelous dexterity.
The twins have been educated by private
tutors. their parents having refused to send
with him. He openly taunted Rice with
this woman's name. telling her he had only
married her for her money. The holder he
became the more Bios became devoted to
him. She obeyed her husband in even
most minute things. Then, just before
New Year's Day, 1918 she disappeared.
Mesones went to her parents
“Your daughter is a heartless creature.”
he said. “She has deserted me because I
am blind and has gone to America with
another." L
He drew from his pocket 3 letter. writ:
ten unmistakably by Bice and postmarked
Naples. The letter confirmed what he had
said. Later a hieut..BaiL-kero. a friend of
Mesones, who had been in Naples, told them
he had seen their daughter there in corn
pany with another man.
But the parents were haunted by the
thought all was not as reported in their
daughter’s disappearance. "How could she
make such a fool of herself over Mesones
for seven years then leave him over-
night?" they asked.
in July they succeeded in; having his-
sones taken before the police. He pro-
rim-ed witnesses. Nothing corild be proved
ii'iflll’lst him. But the Commendatore still
v; ‘.S suspicious He. altered ‘h. reward of
‘4: ,330 lire for intermation as to the when»
ahdiits of his daughter.
formation to furnish“
It was not until 1820 that a young prlv
vale detective, Vittorio Pellegrini, while
sitting in the once of Emilio Benucci, a
friend of the blind man, heard him make
casual reference to Bios Simonotti.
Something in the way Benucci snake was
suspicious. Pelligrini. who had been work‘-
ing for some time on the case, thought
deeply. The next time he saw his friend
he suddenly produced a photograph of
the young woman, whose body had been
found by the police as mentioned above.
NoWy had in-
"The detective asked his acquaintance if
hr- recognised in this portrait—4hr: por-
trait of a dead. personerthe lace oi! the
missing girl.
"It’s Blue Situonetti, Lwithout a doubt,”
said Benucc'l on his guard. He confessed
that Maria de Angelle, the woman in whom
Mesones was interested, had told hL'n7Me—7
sonos murdered his wife. whom hehad in
some mysterious way disguised so that as
"Maria Rotolllnl" she would not be identi‘
fled as Blue.
That was enough for the police. They
exhumed the body of the supposed suicide
and she was promptly identified as their.
daughter by the Simonettis. The policed.
then reversed their suicide verdict and de~
elated it probable Bloc had been murr
tiered where her body was discovered.
The Si tier signed Rotollini. found in the
handbag. was identified as being in Blue's
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merit their condition might call forth.
The twins are healthy and. except tor
their physical misfortune, are normal and
happy. Both are very bright ‘at their
studies and both take an. extreme interest
in history.
They havo not attracted much attention
in the scientific world because of the promi-
nence of Rosa and Joseta. who, having so
“The Strange Murder Mystery
handwriting. as also was the letter from
Naples.
Bice had been murdered: that was
clear. But by whom? Mesones .had been
totally blind many months.’ How could a
liind man so expertly shoot a woman in
the temple?
The police could not explain this but
they took Mesones to prison. A little later
thev arrested Maria de Angelle. For two
years the authorities prepared their Lease.
Now Mesones and Maria de Angelle have
been brought into court, with Lieut. Bar—
hero and Benucci. suspected as accent-L
plicLLecELr *
Rome is intensely interested in the trial.
Many women who remember the gallant.
de onair Mesones of other days sympathize
in: now that he is blind.
at cauld be more piquant, they ask,
to minds weary of melodramatic movies
than the romance of Memes? A man of
the world, with the tang of the adventurer.
who went to Russia in 1909 and returned
with his pockets full at rubles and dia-
wands; a wizard at cards; a man who
could win any woman he pleased? Day
after day in the crowded court room they
see this man. who merely smiles at the
revelations against him, who is never cor-
nered by.the most convinclugkevldence nor
given pause bythe‘ most pitiless questions.
And when the. Women meet outside the
courtroomthey say:
“They'll nmr convict .Mesones," and
them is hope in their voloeh. "He's too
fine and clever for them, and how can they
ever prove theta ,hlindnmanwould shoot
with a revolver so unerrtnglyr'
The men discuss the hueJegal points at
thetrial.
Across the broad stone corridor of the
Palazzo dl Gnisticia, when the trial 1:7
held, stretches a double line of swanky,
blue clad soldiers. The little room soon in;
crowded and then none may pass the lines, :
butthecorridorsarefilledelldaywlth
pcrnoneheplngtogetim . ‘
Mesonessitnlnamthe
There is something oddly childlike in the,
curve at his slight lightens he perches on
the broad canvas steps of his cage. His
7 cheap; Reine hotel to. another, that she gets.
shaves and. well shaped head- is’grsy
In the corner of the cage, w‘itlrhsr backs!!!
to the audience, Maria. sits. her head had.
died into her furs. A robot elaborate guard,
in vermilion and black, with a long Saber-,1
keeps guard over thus tire interested lie? ‘
tenors. The fat pnecurator generah sits
with his chin 11177th hands, his tasLseled dab
locularly: to one side. The president of the
court. who resembles somewhat a nervous
hawk, Keeps: the scarlet manteled clerk»,
dashing here and there to Reeves-oer.-.
Meadows has come into court with one 13‘
otthe strongest cases possible against him”; he; love for her?! little soniGiaeomino. she gig}; 7 _
and with only his blindness as a defense: * was'eonipelled to, '3de she had skinned tour. need to”? 7.
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whichurstatwued'atcenrlontothe orig-
itseltinfloeaanddooeta. Threesome”,
curleue-aehomahethem attrdflireto the
m 0:; arenas; and side shows. but.
nonletheyarenot'insnchoondition-
that an operation is forbidden. , ,
Scientific investigators already are ask- .
lng permission to make methodical study
of Daisy- and Violet. Thodeath offices
andJoseraandtherecallingot the events
of their extraordinary lite seem to have,
reoroused scientific interest. in L this-
phenomenon of nature. These students"
have asked, however, that the mother, Mrs.
film be included also in their investi-
gations.
It is believed that many twin: of differ-
Lent degrees of physical abnormality might
be found in Slain. It has been reported by
visitors to that country who have remained
there long periods that twins joined to-L
gether physically are a not uncommon
occurrence. The same is true or Java,
Burma. and Jahdre. L L
Daisy and Violet have a sister and a
The brother is older and the sister younger.
L The principal ambition of the twogirls
great deal about Rosaand Joscfu and have
been fascinated by the adventures of these
Ltwo.L They have repeatedly begged their
parents to permit them to accept some of
the many otters made to exhibit thong-their
pica being that they are not sensitive and
that they might as well be earning the .
money which would permit them to visit
foreign lands.
The parents however. are most sensi-
hostess-y of it... York graduated hut-
twenty And flan the great univer-
m with their am nominates:
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graduate cornea is theology with a
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widen undone at the suggestion of
1’33anme Hanan mm
been widely norm are based on
north. The snail mayor“! of the,
young mer’r who are leaving college
intend to take up some indlrstrinlcall-
lag in life '
It hs true there will be may new
lawyers 'and engineers added to these
already crowded professions, but not
' nth-Hy gammy as have gone out from
the (alleges in previous years. And
in certain institutions where the pro-
feeiondtlaw for its graduated stu~
muhadbecomectradition thisyear
sees a. great change. For instance.
Dartmouth College, famous for being
the helping mother of Daniel Webster
among other things, will send two
year but two representatives into the
legal Won. while, ninety-two
mg men from there have an.
manned their purpose to go into busi-
ness or manufacturing 7
7 Born the Western Rosier-re Univer-
sffy a note from an oil‘iclal states that
fully one-half of the season‘s output
mean to go into industrial ailing;
(Iolumbia University shows a simi-
Liar predilection for business by its
graduates; but the law and engineer-v
. lug are claiming a goodly number.
Those indeed are ,as they have been
for several Years at Columbia. the ta- L
Sprite ceilings.
7 Low also draws a crowd from Now
York University, and leads, with on-
smearing a good second, but it is al—
most tied by the number of gradu-
ates who announce their intention to
get. as quickly as they can into some
money making business. The gradu-
ates of the class or 1922 of the Col-
lege of the City of New York show
pretty nearly the same illusions.
Engineer: Are Mil).
Yale and Harvard graduatesL will
help out the medical profession by
considerable new blood. and medicine
-draws also from the New York insti-
tutions mentioned. 7A fair number of
.gwtesimtheWWMDOI.
or the spread or materiality. whtchhas I L
tire. They have said they will not permit J
the two girls to become “public freaks.” ’
men in Harvard are attracted by lit- 7
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fromnmherst College this year 10H,
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will take up the insurance 11.7.2. ..7.
Even at this late. date sexentrx-n men
are still undressed. Other occupations
chosen by individualg are: Journalism
dentistry chenilml M83T‘Ch. milling ,
a study of music, the stage. :m- h: irr—
lure, industrial psychology wild fa.
that study at Massachusetts ii «in; .
of Technology. Each year i..e s
dent body elects a. doieag te to «7.30:3 n:
Doshisha University, "Amherst 3.}
Japan” For next year S. B Ni. '7
of Elkhart. Ind. will ':
representative. The fact that Uni—Hit
five men are entering piof essiozzs, d;
contrasted with fourteen last \(1l2\2
worthy of note in comparison of tie
two years.
.In the 751 students who exp zt-t tr.
receive degrees from \orihn istun
University ‘his month a c-..m:~s if
the graduating Class res Pals the popu-
lar trend of college (duo ition ES to-
ward specializing.
Following is the result
ballot: Doctors. 99; Con
yer-s, 50: speciaiized b
miscellaneous businrss, 2 .
7; orator-ion: and ktlrli‘é, S3; mush,
41; ministers. social workers. 35:
teachers, 25; l‘fidfij‘ltlifl, ~35.
Very few of the stud :ts of law,
medicine dc» ‘ and other
snuria‘: I". l. 4'“ .
in their they; in:-
cnmpiishmtnt. cir-riaie nah
llmritlifi. \Vitll Very few '
the professional. and spoii
dents ‘Toliow through"
study their life work. T
broad knowirdge "-‘0r “'7‘?
now the exception and not the rule, as
in the days of yore.
of a straw
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Attorney Gregoriachi, for the State, is con- Rice on the cheek as the latter came out
tinually referring to Mesonee‘ s statements of
in jail. These are damaging. 7
0n Febmary 4,1920 he said to one of 01'
the prison authorities:
the church on her wedding day.
The day of Maria’s testimony struck one
the dramatic notes 0: the trial. Han-eds
snarled out in open court. Faced with
“I felt toward Bice as it she were my Benucci,1liaria sneer-ed at him, as had the
sister, but for Maria I had a great passion. States slawyer, who called him a. "sack o:
I wished to go away with her, but I had mud.”
squandered my money.
marry Bice. who had promised me half her
iaheritance." if"
A year later he said, the policeL declare. ,
volver on the Lungotevere Marcia the night 13
of January 3. While she was at my side I in
shot her through the temple.
30 l decided ‘0 extort money from licenses and herself.
Bontrcci licensed her of betraying him.
Little Stella lanolin, the girl who guided
the blind Rescues about the streets. testi-
“It is true that I Lkfiléd Blce WI‘h a re- fled that she first saw fiim when she WL
I felt her Lwas not blind then. Two or three years
She accused Benucci of trying to
years old and was helping her mother
a tobacco shop near St. Peter“ 3. Mesones
Restaurant Romoletto. 7 New Year‘s
they went to Mesones's house for .7.
7 thing to drink and missed Rice.
said she thought it was strange for .
friend to go away without saying {arencll
to anybody, but she inlieied
declaration that Bice had 9'
used All Rouse
been very fond.
Everybody leaned forward whtn Ge;
Lotte described
Mesones and Barbero, when the lane.—
leaving for his home in Sicily.
going to the stalk!
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slipping to the gm‘md' I heard a m‘flagé later he came to her mothers shop with
I threw beside her the ”"01?“ Maria. Then in the {all 0! 1917 she saw
him with andther prom. who. he said.
Then I ran away. All the time I felt that , was his wife,
After Bices disappearance Stella said
world. I was completely blind at the time. that 316801165 gave her a wedding ring,
some bracelets and several documents to
keep for him: 7
"Didn't you suspect anything when you
saw the wedding ring?” asked Gregori- 33rd.
coming.
Leann herrpttf'LSé. yw‘hich Lil: hid in my hands:
L-vI was doingsthe most nathral thing lnLL~-theL
but I did this without the help at any one."
There were other damaging statements.
“ Contronted by them Mosul-res merely smiles
and produces witnesses who say that he L
underwent periods oi: insanity in the prison
in which he did not recognize his mother
or his lawyer. He also has witnesses to
testify that at least one "eonression" was
wrenched from him beause he believed his
mother had been arrested and would be con-
achl.
"I was only a child, I didn’t understand
those things. ” she said. L
testified. that
wanted to marry her.
victed unless he could clear her. He even him “50‘“ his ““943?“ said: on, In 53"
has letters written in prison to his mother 3 divorce.”
Mesones bed
When she naked
Stella
gave Barbers a letter to post in Nash‘s
but Georgette declared that she did not
know its contents. The State declares this
was the letter supposed to have been mailed
by Bice. She held out. stoutly against at- '
temple of the prosecution to wring from
her the names of her father and mother.
She would only say what was apparent,
that her family was of the nobility.
Then the prosecution played a strong
It produced a man who was be
lieveffi'have been almost an eyes fitness
to the murder on the Lungotevere Marnie.
This man, Andrea Burntti, testified that he
had seen a girl walking toward the Ti her
the night of January 3, and that soon a ter
she turned the corner he heard a. pistol
shot. He rushed to the spot. saw the body
lying on the ground and two men and :1
on strips of cardboard? to show how much _
he: cared tor her.
least cleared up one mystery. He has ex-
plained how it was that Bice assumed the
out of jail for two years after her murder.
fling of the whole trial.
He testified that Bios knew many women in
was. enamored of him. This knowledge
Emacs played open. He finally penis. . 7i,
Bieethat Maria; at least, must be‘ a...
that since‘li‘e m Mind Lshe must‘éom»
elaborate Romain! dimmed which in-
mightfbe seen In lief disguise.
administration of her mire—fin case of f,,
hesitant."
swaying the Riviera;
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She made an important statement Juli
, she testified that after she had seen Me-
It Mesones a testimony has produced Genes talking to 3 81‘0“? 0‘ NMJGOEES
cello within com cation hehasat men. he had said. to her; 4
compli n pli L would kill a "person for a hundred lire."
The dramatic moment in her testimony
. Maria Botciiini which he 111 came when Stella was faced with the evi-
“mm as MAXI deuce oi the woman superintendent of the , ,
This relation was one of the most staru' building in which she lives with7 her
L” * ~ Lmother that uponsthe sis-nest on Saleem-res
the details or the murder and had me
melted to describe them; before :they had
:11 been published. '
LThg} police officers, Costa and Gannsda.
manna crime. He arranged with her the had overheard this recital
forced going about fol-three days from and hat to pieces between nervous little fin-
He even out that Mesones' a friends had tortured
persuaded her to turf over to him the legal her-
prominent family,-
7“Those men
1920 Stella had told her she knew all
Stella became very nervous, tearing her L
Suddenly she fainted, after crying
way.
at 3.11..
ms.
Roteifini was really my wife?”
audience shivers, he repeats, “No.
times I think Bloc will come back
woman-running up the steps from the rii or
as if they might haVe shot her from the
ambush of the river wall, and were 9:. no
ins
Then the defense produced. physi«,é:‘z
reports to show that
epileptic; “
as’
this witness was
Most of the evidence sheets awsx from
*Mesonea’s bent head in the same settling
He himself cheerfully winds up “19
“mazes into even worse knots. One day he
will say that. his theory of’the cage :3 that
Bice shot lie-eel: because she was deter
nicely jealous oi Mama. The next he .. ;=
his audience by do: iaring solemnly‘
“Sometimes I think that Else is not « 'lrad
How cani‘. a Blind man. know
1 believe this is all a plot as fol
And as {be
Some-
{and
Georgette Meadow. daughter or a show as that this whole trial is a s W
3m and beautiful women.
‘ was a. more attractive nightmare.”
At the very tiLlLLnLe file gently bOrn Bice witness-51irn,hlond, dressed in no ex-
Rome has not had such an interesting
began lief strange We Mario ms pensive lament with for at neck and cuff. or dramatic murder mystery in many
.7 L' She spoke in low, well modulated tones years. There pass in review during emit
Maria de Angelic; was a, 80er witness that revealed her- aristocratic-«breeding. day so many phases of the mysterious lite
7 when she came out 0‘ he? cage, with bent She took the indeed iota at the smack of the “other halt,“ with its loves and
‘ stand; mm thetime silty or her blond hardener-fully
had been an ndrenmress. L For a gear-fined» 3. km, she said. Lake loves the Very memory of the little wife
”BMW feature seemed {L9 be had. knowngheeideutmut‘ Barthel-o. and whose Specter inhabits the court room day
ad km lineages... and ML The after dam so Lmany of the women of
Rome
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