A WILD RIDE FOR LIFE
SWIFT VENGEANCE ON RUNAWAY WIFE.
Simon Encich, a gamekeeper, of Vrpojci, in CuCettia, took a swift revenge on his deserting wife and her lover yesterday (said a Vienna gram of March lStE){He had married a beautiful girl named Anna Simich, but treated her with such cruelty, owing to jealousy, that she decided’ to run away with a former lover. While her husband was out ou duty yesterday she drove off in a cart with her father and her lover. Ancicli arrived some time later to, find that his wife had left with her lover, and, mounting a horse, gave chase.
He followed the tracks left by the cart in tho snow, amy many, miles from homo sighted the fugitives. They whipped np tlieir horse to a gallop to escape, but Ancicli quickly overhauled them, and then drawing a revolver shot his wife and her lover dead, and dangerously wounded his wife’s father.
' Ancicli then hitched his own horse to the tail of the card, and 'ijrove back with the bodies to his home, where he gave himself up to the police.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2090, 27 May 1907, Page 1
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186A WILD RIDE FOR LIFE Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2090, 27 May 1907, Page 1
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