AN AWFUL TRAGEDY AFTER A WEDDING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1126, 26 July 1883, Page 3

AN AWFUL TRAGEDY AFTER A WEDDING.

A horrible affair took place recently at Rio Grande dei Sur, near to the Uruguayan frontier. A young farmer was bitten by a mad dog, and remedies were immediately applied to the wound. Cauterization was resorted to, and there was every reason to believe that the virus had not entered the victim’s system. When the accident occurred the young man was about to marry, but in consequence of the untoward occurrence, the ceremony was postponed for three months, when the medical men who were consulted on the case gave it as their unanimous opinion that there was not the slightest ground for apprehending any danger from the bite. The marriage took place on the farm, and was celebrated with the customary festivities. After the nuptial supper was over the bridegroom appeared to be seized with a fit of melancholy. One of lore’s caprices, said some body. After supper came the ball, and when this was at its height the newlywedded couple withdrew from the festive scene and retired to their apartment. About an hour afterwards the house resounded with ferocious cries, intermingled with shrieks and groans. As soon as the guests had recovered from the stupefaction they started in the direction of the cries. They proceeded from the nuptial chamber. The door was burst open and a horrible spectacle presented itself. On the floor lay the young bride in a pool of blood. She still breathed, but her body was torn and bitten as if she had been seized by a tiger. In a corner of the room was the bridegroom, covered with blood and foaming at the mouth, scratching, biting, and tearing away at the wall and furniture. With a sudden bound he sprang like a tiger upon the invaders of his lair, and he would have made one or more victims had not a brother of the dying bride sent a bullet crashing through the madman’s brain.— Montevideo Razon.