A REALLY "NOVEL" INCIDENT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 774, 16 February 1877, Page 4

A REALLY "NOVEL" INCIDENT.

Tlic adage that truth is stranger than fiction receives an emphatic continuation in a story received via Monte Video hy tho laat mail. Comentor,'■*'thriving'town on the banks Of the Parana, near its junction ■with Paraguay, has been the scone of a tragedy thrilling • enough to have satisfied the admirers of transportiue ’ melodrama. At 10 o’clock on the evening of the Bih of July, there was a peremptory 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 by a poniard. Rushing into the house over the 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 bands 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 was at home, and the girl raised the hue and cry among the neighbors who came with her to the scene of bloodshed. They were filled with terror, and shrank from the sight. At last, one bolder than the rest, • tore the masks Off the countenance of the two 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 homo? To worn-out authors, who vainly ■ cudgel their brains for originality, to barren playrights madly searching for a plot with fresh situations, to people generally whose business is to make their neighbors flesh creep, and who feel that they have exhausted their devices, worse council could be given than—try the Argentine confederation.