A Five-Act Tragedy.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 102, 10 May 1883, Page 3

A Five- Act Tragedy.

_ __«. A peculiorly sad and shocking domestic tragedy is reported from the town of Batyn, in Hungary. The keeper of a crossing on the East Hungarian Railway near tbe town happened to win a few weeks ago some hundreds of florins in a lottery. The poor fellow, who had never seen such a large sura of money in his life, took the bank notes home, and amused himself in turning them over, forming plan upen plan for their disposal. All at once a train was signalled, and he rushed to the post, leaving the precious roll behind him. As ill-luck would have it, his little daughter was playing in the room at the time. Struck by the peculiar appearance of the notes, having rarely, ever seen one before, and not knowing anything whatever of their value, she proceeded to use them as a plaything, and presently flung them into the fire, where they were burned to ashes. Just (hen the father returned, missed the notes, and learned what had become of them. In his fury he struck the child a violent tyow, which stretched her lifeless on the floor. The mother, who was giving a hath in an adjoining room to her second child, an infant, rushed in on hearing the disturbance, picked up the little girl, and tried to restore her to consciousness. Her efforts were vain ; the child was dead. She flew to the bath in which she had left the infant. Another shock awaited her ; the child was drowned in its bath. The ckildlesss mother, distracted and desperate, rushed out of the house and hanged herself on the branch of a tree. The wretched father, overwhelmed with misfortune — his fortune gone — seized a revolver and put an end to his existence. The artistic completeness of this tragedy gives it a certain air of unreality, but the Hungarian journals vouch for the exact truth of these details. — Home Paper.