BAD LUGE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4485, 21 May 1883, Page 2

BAD LUGE.

A, peculiarly sad and shocking domestic tragedy (the St. James Gazette |says) is reported from the town of Batin, in Hungary. The keeper of a crossing' on the East Hungarian Eailway near that town happened to win recently some hundreds of florins in a lottery. The poor fellow, who had never sesn such a. large sum of money in his Hie, took the banknotes home and turned them over, forming plan upon plan for their disposal. All at once a train was signalled, and he rushed to his post, leaving the precious roll of notes behind him. As ill lack would, have it, his little daughter was playing in the room at the time. Struck by the peculiar appearance of the notes, having rarely, if erer, seen one before, and not knowing anything whatever of their value, she proceeded to use. then as a plaything, and presently flung them into the fire, where they were burnt (o ashes. Just then the father returned, missed the notes, and learned what had become of them. In his fury he struck the child a violent blow which stretched her lifeless on the floor. The mother, who was giving a bath iv aa adjoining room to her second child, an in* fant, rushed ia on hearing the disturbance, picked up the little girl and tried to restore her to consciousness. Her efforts were vain ; the child was dead. She flew to the bath in which she bad left the infant. Another shock awaited her—the child was drowned in its bath. The child* less mother, distracted and desperate, rushed out of the house and 'banged her* self on the branch of a tree. The wretched father, overwhelmed with misfortune-* his fortune gooe, his wife aa<] children gone—seized a revolver and pat an end to his existence. The artistic completeness of i'lis tragedy gives it a certain air of un* reality, but the Hungarian jouruaU vouch for the exact truth of these details.