UNFOUNDED JEALOUSY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1197, 28 June 1884, Page 3

UNFOUNDED JEALOUSY.

The Anglo Brazilian Times tells the following pad story :—" Police corporal Mariano Monteiro da. Silva, a man quiet and attentive to hh duties, and tenderly attached to his wife, I.eoeadia Francisca, was on his way through his hack garden to his usual parade when he noticed in llie rear of it signs of tho recent presence of two and, coupling them with what he considered anxiety on the part of his nife that he should not g«> lato to jmrade, jealousy awoke within hitn, As soon as he could, about 6.50 p.m., he hastonrd home, brooding over his suspicion*, and as he enUred his land ho saw in the two figures, —one of a man, the other of a woman wearing a, pink dress such as his wife had on that day. Rushing forward, he drove his bayonet seven times into the man, and then seeing that the woman had fled in the direction of the house he pursued her, and as he entered his yard he saw his wife hastening forward to meet him. \V ithout hesitation he plunged the bayoni t into her again and again until she lay dying on the ground with eighteen bayonet stabs, when he proceeded to head quarters and surren-

be.red himself, telling the story of hie betrayal and his revenge. Next day, hwwever, a slave girl came to the police and confessed that it was she who had been holding an interview with her lover tvhen the corporal, misled by the darkness and his jealousy, had attacked them. Poor Leooadia Francises had perished innocent, like another Desdemona, the victim of her husband's unreasoning, jealous madness. She died in an hour, and the man remained in a perilous state,"