Post by hi224 on Jul 12, 2019 5:34:24 GMT
We're in 1926, few years after WWI. In a village in the north of Italy a man is found wandering in a graveyard, clearly in a confusional state. He's then brought to a Mental Hospital. He doesn't know who he is, doesn't remember anything about where he lives, what's he's name or anything, nevertheless he's a clearly well educated guy. After one year on a column of a journal called "Chi l'ha visti?" (who has seen them?) his photo is published to help recognizing him. That's when a very rich woman, Giulia Canella, sees his pictures and understands she's found her beloved husband Giulio, wounded and reported missing 10 years earlier during WWI. After a few meetings (without him knowing that those were organized), the woman is more and more sure she's found her husband, and he starts remembering something.
The mistery is solved, the man remembers about his past with the lady, their children and everything, and he comes back home. The story is that beautiful and romantic that all the newspapers cover it.
But, of course there's a but.
A few days after, an unsigned letters arrive to the police stating that the John Doe is not the professor Canella, but the anarchist and criminal Mario Bruneri, wanted since 1922. The amnesiac is convicted and Bruneri's relatives are called in to identify him: all of them (the son, the wife, the siblings, even the side chick) are sure we're dealing with Mario Bruneri. His fingerprints are checked and after a first inconclusive exam, at the second try they appear to match Bruneri's (who had already been in jail).
After 4 years and 5 degrees of judgment the Italian law (maybe under the pressure of the fascist regime, which had from the beginning decided that the man was Bruneri), the amnesiac is officially the anarchist Bruneri. After a few year in prison he goes to Brasil with Giulia Canella, who has never ever doubted of him being is lost husband. They die in Brazil, in 1941 him and in 1977 her, still living as wife and husband.
There are some proofs that give almost full certainty about his identity as the anarchist and not the professor:
the fingerprints
some letters shown by the son of Bruneri where the amnesiac admits his true identity. This letters might be a false, they have been published 20 years after the death of the amnesiac, which seems suspicious.
a DNA analysis done in 2014, comparing the amnesiac DNA to the one of a Canella. The result is negative, which suggests that the guy is Bruneri.
Last thing: few years after the trial a noble English woman went to the police to give a statement. She said that in 1923 she had met a homeless dressed with an old military uniform. Since he was calm and polite, they became some sort of friends. He told her he fought during the war but because of a trauma he didn't remember much. She then became friend with another woman helping this homeless. But the guy seemed quite different every time they met: sometimes very nice and educated, sometimes much less. This is why the woman suggested that she had actually met BOTH Bruneri and the Canella, and than both where the homeless. Thanks to their resemblance, they could have met and become friends. Also, a jacket the woman allegedly gave to the original homeless (who might be Canella) was found among Bruneri's possessions. The anarchist might have known about Canella's situation and decided to take advantage of it, since the police was looking for him.
This is the end, the evidences pro Bruneri are overwhelming, but the truth is not 100% certain yet.
Source of most of the story: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruneri-Canella_case
The mistery is solved, the man remembers about his past with the lady, their children and everything, and he comes back home. The story is that beautiful and romantic that all the newspapers cover it.
But, of course there's a but.
A few days after, an unsigned letters arrive to the police stating that the John Doe is not the professor Canella, but the anarchist and criminal Mario Bruneri, wanted since 1922. The amnesiac is convicted and Bruneri's relatives are called in to identify him: all of them (the son, the wife, the siblings, even the side chick) are sure we're dealing with Mario Bruneri. His fingerprints are checked and after a first inconclusive exam, at the second try they appear to match Bruneri's (who had already been in jail).
After 4 years and 5 degrees of judgment the Italian law (maybe under the pressure of the fascist regime, which had from the beginning decided that the man was Bruneri), the amnesiac is officially the anarchist Bruneri. After a few year in prison he goes to Brasil with Giulia Canella, who has never ever doubted of him being is lost husband. They die in Brazil, in 1941 him and in 1977 her, still living as wife and husband.
There are some proofs that give almost full certainty about his identity as the anarchist and not the professor:
the fingerprints
some letters shown by the son of Bruneri where the amnesiac admits his true identity. This letters might be a false, they have been published 20 years after the death of the amnesiac, which seems suspicious.
a DNA analysis done in 2014, comparing the amnesiac DNA to the one of a Canella. The result is negative, which suggests that the guy is Bruneri.
Last thing: few years after the trial a noble English woman went to the police to give a statement. She said that in 1923 she had met a homeless dressed with an old military uniform. Since he was calm and polite, they became some sort of friends. He told her he fought during the war but because of a trauma he didn't remember much. She then became friend with another woman helping this homeless. But the guy seemed quite different every time they met: sometimes very nice and educated, sometimes much less. This is why the woman suggested that she had actually met BOTH Bruneri and the Canella, and than both where the homeless. Thanks to their resemblance, they could have met and become friends. Also, a jacket the woman allegedly gave to the original homeless (who might be Canella) was found among Bruneri's possessions. The anarchist might have known about Canella's situation and decided to take advantage of it, since the police was looking for him.
This is the end, the evidences pro Bruneri are overwhelming, but the truth is not 100% certain yet.
Source of most of the story: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruneri-Canella_case