Paulo Scalzo is accused of the murder of his wife Catherinuccia. He took her to the vessel captained by Filippo Berighieri on which he worked as a sailor, they spent the night aboard and then he took her to the area of the warehouses of the Universita of Valletta and there murdered here. He was sentenced to public hanging.

Lorenzo Buttigieg, who had been found guilty of thefts previously, had been sentenced to community service at the Conventual Church of St John the Baptist in Valletta. While serving here he dared to steal two silver candelabra from the chapel of Our Lady of Filermos. He was sentenced to public hanging.