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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 42, 3 April 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

Jealousy anu Crime. — According to (lulianani, the military tribunal of Oran in Algeria tried last week a ferocious looking Arab, named Alimo-b?n-Taieb, nged ;i(). en a charge of having n utilateci his wile, a young woman only 1G years of iiire, hy cuttii'g off her nose, her left hand, and two fingers of thh right one. Jealousy was the motive of the crime, and the accused .seemed to think that he was perfectly justiiied in thus avenging his fancied dishonor. In answer to the president's questions, he stated that, having several times, when returning home from his work in the fields, found his wife in company with his nephew, he cautioned her to break off the acquaintance, but as she took no notice of the warning, and she received the young man in her tent, he determined to punish her disobedience. He accordingly induced her to accompany him to a solitary place, where lie bound her, and inflicted the mutilations he had premeditated as a certain means of preventing her from having another lover. His wife appeared in court, and presented a pitiable spectacle, her nose baing cut off level wifth her face. She declared that she had been always faithful to her husband, but several witnesses deposed that her conduct was less irreproachable than she pretended. After a short deliberation, the tribunal found the prisoner guilty of cutting and maiming, and condemned him to five years' imprisonment Diabolical Report. — Some days ago a female in Sheffield came to a neighbor with the astonishing intelligence that the devil was dead. The story did not meet with acceptance, and the sceptical woman therefore accompanied her friend to the shop in which she had seen the fact advertised. After wandering through the streets of the town they at length reached the dyer's shop, in the window of which was a placard with this inscription — " Satan dyed here"