MADAME CORA SENTENCED TO DEATH.
The Melbourne Herald is informed that in a private letter of a late date from the Cape of Good Hope, the following startling intelligence is conveyed :— The town (Cape 1 Town) is in a state of the most intense excitement, in consequence of the unfortunate affair of the Cora Troupe. Business with them had been very good, and everything looked pleasant tor a successful season. AH of a, sudden the whole town was thrown into a state of the greatest excitement by, the news 'that Madame Cora, in'a fit' of 'jealousy, had strangled to death the young vocalic, Miss Alice Wren (sister'of Mrs F. M. Bates, the actress). Madame Cora has since been sentenced to death, but that,penalty was afterwards commuted to three years' imprisonment,with solitary confinement. Mr Bushe (CoraV husband) has gone to England, and Yal Yose, the ventriloquist, has , formed a company and gone into the interior! Mr ,& B. Howe is with the Roebuck- United Service Company, and | doings well./ ---.■. j
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2524, 7 February 1877, Page 3
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168MADAME CORA SENTENCED TO DEATH. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2524, 7 February 1877, Page 3
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