Bride and Bridegroom Murdered at a Ball

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 1 October 1892, Page 4

Bride and Bridegroom Murdered at a Ball

A tragedy unexampled in its sensational features has occurred in the outskirts of the city of Mexico. On Tuesday aft ernoon John Palmeyre, a well-to-do youn^ tanner of an adjoining district, was married to a Miss Alice Muller, the daughter of a highly respectable country doctor. The marriage was attended by a good many friends, and. among them, John Ellias, an Ohio man, who had courted Miss duller for several years, but in vain When the engagement between the young; couple was annouueed, Ellias made some threatening remarks, but as he and Palraeyre had: been friends tor some years, and ap- | peared to be on the best of terms then, i no notice was taken of his remarks. The wedding took place at a little country church, and afterwards the pprty returned to the residence of the bride's father, where a banquet was laid out, and where later on in the evening, a country ball was given. The bride had danced once or twice, when Ellias asked for the privilege of a waltz She made some laughing remark to her husband about its being ' her last' dance, and accepted. In a moment the two were spinninground the room, when suddenly, and and while the young girl was still dancing with him, Ellias was seen to disengage his left hand, draw a revolver from his pocket, and, raising it quickly to her forehead, blow her brains out. The whoie thing occurred so quickly that the girl could never have realised what had happened. She fell dead to the floor,, her bridal dress saturated with blood. John Palmeyre was the first to spring towards the murderer, but before he could reach him Ellias fired again, and lodged a bullet in the young husband's chest, from which he' must die. Then, before he could be prevented by the horrified guests, Ellias put a third bullet through his own head, and actually fell dead upon the corpse of his partner in the waltz of a few moments before.