A HORRIBLE STORY FROM MEXICO.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 363, 13 January 1880, Page 3

A HORRIBLE STORY FROM MEXICO.

A private letter from Colonel Bringliurst, dated at Pan-al, Mexico, shows that the preparations for extensive and successful silver mining operations are progressing very satisfactorily. In the letter the colonel gives the following narration : —" Last week in Chihuahua, a woman went into a bootmaker's shop in front of his dwelling and was measured for a pair of shoes. The son of Crispin said to the woman, " You have a very pretty foot." "Do you think so ?" said she. He replied, " Yes. That is the prettiest foot in Mexico." The woman was to come back next day and leave Idol, when the shoes were to be commenced. The shoemaker's wife, hearing all, said nothing. The next day the shoemaker was out when the woman with the pretty foot called, and according to agreement, the wife got her into the back room, and stabbed her to death. The woman then-cut a steak out of the clead woman's leg, and packed it under the bed. The shoemaker came home and ate his dinner. The wife asked if he liked the meat. He answered that it was the best he had ever eaten. The wife then told him he had eaten a part of "the prettiest leg in Mexico." He asked her what she meant. She shewed him the body under the bed, and made a dash at him with a knife, but he escaped and ran to the Palacio, and told the Judge what Imd happened. The Judge summoned a guard of soldiers and went to the house. He asked the wife if she had committed the murder, and when she answered yes and attempted to justify the act, he ordered her to be shot on the spot by the soldiers, and his orders were promptly obeyed."