UNFOUNDED JEALOUSY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 18 June 1884, Page 2

UNFOUNDED JEALOUSY.

The Anglo-Brazilian "Times" tells the following sad story:—"Policecorporal Mariano Monteiro da Silva, a man quiet and attentive ; to his duties, and tenderly attached to his wife, Leocadia Erancisca, was on his way through his hack garden to his usual parade, when he noticed in the rear of it signs of the recent presence of two persons, and, coupling them with what he considered anxiety on the part of his wife that he should notgo late to parade, jealousy awoke ; within; him,. As soon as he could, about 6.30 p.ra,, j he hastened home, brooding over his suspicions, and as he entered his land, 1 he saw two figures in the dusk—one of a man. the other of a woman wearing a pink dress suoh as his, wife had on that day. Bushing forward he drove the bayonet seven times into'the man, and then seeing that the woman had fled in'' the direction of the' househe pursued her, and as he entered his yard he saw his wife hastening forward to

meet him. Without hesitation he plunged the bayonet into her again and again until she lay dying on the ground with, eighteen bayonet, stabs, when he proceeded to head quarters and surrendered himself, telling the story of his betrayal and also of his vevenge. Next day, however, a slave girlcametothe police and Btated that it was she who had been holding an interview with her lover' ,'when the 'corporal, misled b 7 the darkness and his jealousy, had attacked tbem, Poor Leocadia Francisca had perished While innocent, like another Deademona, the victim of ; her husband's unreasoning jealous madness. 5 She died in an hour and the man'remained in a perilous state." : ■■':'/■.■'• ■;-■■.;