Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1879 — A Doctor’s Fatal Bargain. [ARTICLE]

A Doctor’s Fatal Bargain.

A singular case of homicide was lately tried at Spoleti, Italy. Hie accused was a rich former named Carlo Mar? ronni, and his offense was shooting a doctor who had foi.ed to cure his child. When the child, a boy of fourteen months, fell ill the former sent for the doctor, and told him if his treatment was successful he would pay him 2,000 lire (about $400) but if the child died he would kill him. The doctor undertook the case, but his medicines seemed to aggravate the disease, and death ensued. A few days alter the funeral the former laid in wait for the unfortunate practitioner and shot him. Hie court Sve a lenidnt sentence of ten ywre’ i prison ment and 25,000 lire flne.^^ Ex-Minister Wkl«h, believes thit his Illness was due to exposure in fox minting.