LISBON LOVE TRAGEDY.
MURDER OF CHILDREN
LlSfiON' is agitated, writes a correspondent there, by the occurrence of an extraordinary tragedy. A celebrated beauty, named Rosa Silva, fell violently in love witli a gentleman, who received her protestations with coldness. Thinking that her children, of whom she had several, were the obstacle to gaining her desires, she resolved to kill them. She lighted a charcoal fire in their bedroom, and, having stopped all sources of ventilation, locked them in with the exception of a little boy. Him she took on hoard a steamer in the Tagus, where she bound and placed him in a sack filled with stones, and then threw the sack overboard in full view of the passengers. An attempt was made to seize the woman, but she sprang into the water. Lhc was rescued, hut the boy was drowned.
Only one of her cbAtU'tn, a daughter, sur.it ed the fatal cudeol of the charcoalpoisoned .uOul.
it is believed that the woman is insane.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 248, 28 October 1901, Page 2
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