Ghastly Murder in Hobart A WIFE STABS HER HUSBAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)

Ghastly Murder in Hobart A WIFE STABS HER HUSBAND.

A shocking case ofmurder has occurred in Hobart. A married couple named Victor and Elizabeth Orlando, or Orlander, lately arrived from Bothwell, had been lodging in a house at the corner of Liverpool and Campbell streets. Both were in the habit of drinking. She drank heavily. They often went out together to obtain liquor. They got up pretty early in the morning and went out. They returned some time afterward. After having had a glass or two of liquor thoy were about to flit down to breakfast when she Buddenly called out " Give me mine " Returning to the landlady he made che remark, apparently in a jocular way, '•Don't give her any." The landlady ap parently went into the kitchen and got ready the breakfast. On reluming she saw the woman standing up and stubbing at the man's throat, with a table knife. She thought at first the woman was playing with him, but perceiving almost immediately that blood wae flowing from his neck, and that he appeared to be gasping, she screamed out for help. Two men then rushed in and picked up tho vie tim, who, by this time, had dropped on the floor. They carried him to the hospital, which is only a few yards off. He was just able to stagger along between bis supporters, but blood flowed freely from his neck all the way. When he reached the institution one of the surgeons found he had been stabbed right from the back of the neck to the mouth. Endeavours to prevent the flow of blood were successful externally, but internally bleeding continued ; and when the man got too weak to expectorate the blood he suffocated. In ten minutes from the time of his admission he was dead. Orlando is a foreigner, and was generally regarded as an inoffensive kind of man. The woman ia about 33 years of age. At: the inquest on the body of Olander, the evidence disclosed a deplorable state of domestic unhappiness. The verdict of the jury was, " That Elizabeth Olander, being Bound of memory and discretion, did feloniously and unlawfully kill and slay Victor Olander." When the woman was charged with the murder she sobbed out, " Oh, don't say he is dead ; don'fc say that, for I loved him as my own life. Poor fellow, he was always good to me, he wa3. It was Ms temper." She took the verdict of the jury very calmly, and declined to ask the witnesses any questions.

A reasonable supposition. — Visitor : •• Well, Jones has paid the debt of nature." Merchant: "Why, when was he hung?" •* Hung? What do you mean ? He died a natural death." '• Oh, I supposed that nature must have gotten her debt as the rest of us always did — by execution." The Council of the Koyal Colonial Infititute have assured the members that the union with the Imperial Institute will not deprive them of any of their privileges. The Prince of Wales, in a personal letter to the Colonial Institute, hopes for intimate xelatious and co-operation Between the two toodwe.