HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 708, 12 November 1875, Page 3

HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.

The Hongkong Times tells the following story ; —“ We have been told of a most extraordinary domestic epi sode as having occurred quite recently in a JSincrpo family residing in onr midst. It seems that a married Chinaman was in the habit of giving his wife much cause for jealousy, which, from the circumstances recounted to ns, app°ars to have heen onlv too well founded. The lady bore it fo" a long time, but at last, wearied out by the infidelities of her snouse, attempted to commit suicide with opium in his absence. Word was brought to him one evening that his wife was in a dying condition, and on hastening back he found the unfortunate woman only too nnmistalceable in a very precarious condition Repentant, but too late, he cast about for some means of saving her life, when the bystanders volunteered the valuable information that the blond of a live eel would, if poured or dropped upon the tongue of the dyimr woman, infallibly work a cure. Wh ther this marvellous result would have followed or not, we cannot say, hut in the excess of his zeal the husband held the writhing slippery creature so near to his wife’s open mouth that it actually fell in and slipped down into her stomach. This horrible occurrence naturally created the utmost a crony among the surrounding friends, but the case was hopeless. The frantic contortions of the eel in his new sphere caused the unfortunate woman the most heartrending torture, and it was a quarter-ot-an-hour before death mercifully put an end to her sufferings ”