TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4103, 3 May 1892, Page 2

TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE.

B . A Singular Drama, s A most singular drama in real life . baa just been enacted at Saata Fe (New Mexico), its simplicity and ira--3 gio denouement making it picturesquely j horrible. In 1882Eodrigo Mailmen, ] a Mexican youth, left El Hito,a town I 16 miles distant, for Mexico, to go s to work in the mines, He told his mother and his sweetheart that he proposed to make a fortune iu ordor to come back, marry bis sweetheart, and make his mother comfortable, He expected to be gone for three > years. After his departure he wrote only at long intervals, and after a , while his letters ceased altogether, It was finally learned by the mother through a man who was supposed to f be a friend of Martinez, that her son ; had been killed in a brawl at the mine where he worked, In the meanwhile [ the son hoard from El Kito | that his mother was dead and i hissweetheartmarried, After working , hard for ten years he returned a few | days ago to El Bito, He then learned , that his mother was alive and bis sweetheart still unmarried. He met . the supposed friend, and was advised , by him togo home, call on his mother, and pretend to bring her news from i her 30ii, afterwards revealing his identity, so that the old lady might ' not be injuriously taken by surprise; He did so, While he was sitting in his mother's house as a stranger introduced by the friend, he was sud- ' denly attacked by the old woman, who stabbed him to the heart, She had been told by the supposed friend that .the stranger was the murderer of her son, When she later learned the truth she committed suicide by cutting her throat, These details were learned by the sweetheart, and her grief and indignation in denouncing the false friend, who was a lover of hers, caused the latter to be shot.