A SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
A shocking tragedy was enacted at Colac (Victoria) on November t!. Martin Tcnnas, a Belgian, suspected his wife of having committed adultery with a fellow workman named Hugh Anderson. For some time past Tennas has been peculiar in his manner, and was always either sharpening his knife or loading his gun, at the same time vowing vengeance against his wife and Anderson. He became so strange that Ids wife left him, and went to stay at an hotel at Ondit, whither he followed her, and induced her to return home. They went to bed together on the night in question, the husband taking a butcher’s knife with him. Throe hours afterwards he asked her to confess her guilt, which she refused to do. He then took the knife and plunged it into her stomach four times to a depth of nearly live inches. Their _ daughter, aged 14, who was in bed with her parents, prevented any further stabbing, and her father then cut Ids own throat with a razor, and returned to bed. Tennas’s wounds arc not dangerous, but his wifa is mortally wounded.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2395, 19 November 1880, Page 2
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187A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2395, 19 November 1880, Page 2
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