A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 242, 13 March 1880, Page 3

A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

While travelling through Switzerland in November last with his ajfe, a physician resident at Grata, witnessed at a small railway station within the Helvets n frontier a truly tragical and thrilling episode of doxn Stic Hie, widen he has imparted to the leading journal of his native town. A young doctor, recently appointed to the poat of town physician in the Swiss hours'- which became the scene of the tragedy had for some time past carried on a secret flaison with a married lady, and this guilty connection had resulted in the birth of several children. s -hi: rtly after his appointment however, he contracted a mataimon’al alian. e with a yoang lady of respectable family, r, nd was just starting on his weddi- g ftp with his bride,when his former mistress appeared in the station, and flung herself down upon the rails as the tram began to move. Tire engine passed o\er her body, mangling it horribly, and the bridegroom was summoned in his medical capacity to the spot where the unfortunate woman’s mutilated remains were deposited. Unnerved by the terrible sight, he uttered a loud cry, and fell on the platform in a state of insensibility. Som of the by-standers acquainted his bride with the cause of the suicide committed almost before her eyes, whereupon she turned with loathing from the senseless form of her husband, and at once went back to her father’s house leaving Dr.— to the indignation of the crowd assembled in the railway station. A spirited endeavous was made to lynch him, from which he was rescued with great trouble by the police and railway officials. To complete the horrors of this dismal story, the husband of the unfortunate woman who perished under the wheels of the locomotive, went raving mad on heaving of her awful death and its cause, and is at present the inmate of a lunatic .asylum. The five j’ouug children he believed to be his. These deprived at a blow of both of thei.- parents, have been taken into Tie local poorhouscs