A WOMAN'S REVENGE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1757, 3 February 1888, Page 4

A WOMAN'S REVENGE

Chicago 19th September.— A strange story of a woman's revenge has just been made public here, through the Austrian Consul's office, the princ'psl aotre.'.s belr g now a resident of this city. The talc Is an interesting one. Some seven years ago, it seems, a wealthy farmer, named Jdllnek, who lived in the povnce of Tabor in Bohemia, was guilty of Infidelity, » servant girl io the family being the objeot of his sffactbue. He had a handsome young wife and an ioier- sting daughter, and when tbe servant girt gave birth to a child t ere was mush t ilk among the neighbors. The wife appeared to be ignorant of the ofleooa and continued her household duties as usual But she nas not so blind as the neighbors supposed, and concerted a scheme for revenge. One day she went to a magistrate at Tabor and made a di-posi-tion that that btr husband bad tried to poison her, producing in ev, dance a dish v meat which contained a deadly drug - ellinek was arrested, and his promluenoe canted widespread interest in th-j trial which followed. The evidenoj was apgarently conclusive. The woman told ow her life bad been threatened time and time again, and how she discovered tbe poison j Ist in time to save herself. Jellinek denied everything, but tbe jury sentenced hi-n to s-x een years In tbe dungeons at K&ttouzy. The wife, with her little one, went to Vienna, where she remained in strict seclusion for about three years, living on a little money she had saved. She received no money from her husband's estate and asked for none, but preferred to live to poverty. Three years after her husband's Imprisonment, tbe wife having spent almost her last kreofz r, emigrated to America. She worked in New York and then came to Chicago, and secured em ployment as domestic in one family and another, under a fictitious name and finally settled with a family named Farmeba, where she has since remained will liked by the family, who, however, h*ve wondered at peculiar changes in her temperament. Six months ago she determined to end the mental strain which was open her, and went to the Austrian Consul, to whom she eonfeised that, prompted by jaalousy, she had with her own hinds poisoned the food and then accused her hasbani of the act. M. Olanssenius took tbe woman's deposition and six months sgo forwarded it to the authorities at Tabor. The law's course was slow, and it was nearly five months before the prisoner was granted a new trial, acquitted and released from prison. "When ho was released he was physically a wreck, and his death It now a question of bat a few years. The woman's revenge was oomplete. A reporter calling on Mrs J a linek foond her a woman cf about 30 years of sgj, but looking much older. She had been handsome, but was now thin and worn. She aaid she was glad her husband «cs out, svad that the dreadful load was off her mind. •' Yju doi.'t know," she added, " how I suffered aw on his imprisonment. I wouldn't go through t v <e i xperierjci again my life depended upon it. No, I will never live with bim fgaln, and I knew 1 will never see bim." She broke down •gain, and torppd aw<y to hide her grief