REALLY "NOVEL" INCIDENT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 63, 23 February 1877, Page 3

REALLY "NOVEL" INCIDENT.

The adage that truth is stranger than fiction receives an emphatic confirmation in a story received via Monte Video by the last mail. Corrienter, a thriving town on the banks of the Parana, near its junction with the Parague has been the scene of a tragedy, thrilling enough to have satisfied the admired of transpontine melodrama. At 10 o'clock on the evening of July 8. 'there was a peremtory knock at the door of a rich citizen. Hardly had he answered the summons, and started back at the sight of two men in masks, when he fell dead, transpierced bj' a poignard. Rushing into the house over his corpse, the assailants met his daughter, a pretty girl of fifteen. They seized her, tied her hand and foot, and threatened her with instant doom unless she told them where her father concealed his treasure. The poor girl gave up the secret, and the miscreants left her to go to the place indicated. As soon as she was alone she succeeded by powerful efforts in wrenching the bonds off her limbs, stole to the drawer where her father kept his fire-arms, took a revolver, followed the assassins and blew out the brains of both. Rushing into the street, she sought the aid of the Magistrate of the district, and the local Police Superintendent. Neither were at home, and the girl raised a hue-and-cry among the neigh-, bours, who came with her to the scene of bloodshed. They were filled with terroi', and shrank from the sight. At last, one bolder than the rest tore the masks off the countenances of the murderers and would-be robbers, when lo! the climax of emotion was reached —they were recognised as the Magistrate and the Police Officer who had been absent from home !