A WOMAN'S REVENGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2459, 14 April 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

A WOMAN'S REVENGE.

A straxgb story of a woman's revenge lias just been made public at Chicago, through the Austrian Consul's office, the principal actress being now a resident of this city. The talc is au interesting one. Some seven years ago, it seems, a wealthy farmer, named Jellinolc, who lived in the province of Tabor in Bohemia, was guilty of infidelity, a servant gill in the family being the object of his clandestine all'ections. He had a handsome young wife and an interesting young daughter, and when the servant girl gave birth to a child there was much talk among the neighbours. The wife appeared to be ignorant of the offence and continued her household duties as usual.But she was not so blind as the neighbours supposed, and concocted a scheme for revenge. One day she went to a magistrate at Tabor and made a deposition that her husband had tried to poison her, producing in evidence a dish of meat which contained a deadly drug. Jellinek was arrested, and his prominence caused a widespread interest in the trial which followed, The evidence was apparently conclusive. The woman told how her life had been threatened time and time again, and how she discovered the poison just in time to save herself. Jellinek denied everything, hut the jury sentenced him to sixteen years iu the dungeons at Kartouzy.

The wife, with her little, one, went to Vienna, where she remained in strict seclusion for about three years, living on a little money she had saved. She received no money from her husband's estate and asked for none, but preferred to live in poverty. Three years after her husband's imprisonment, the wife having spent almost her last deutzer, emigrated to America. She worked in New York and then came to Chicago, and secured employment as a domestic in one family and another, under a fictitious name, and finally settled with a family named Farmeba, where she has since remained, well liked by the family, who, however, have wondered at peculiar changes in her tornperament. Six months ago she determined to end the mental strain which was upon her, and went to the Austrian Consul, to whom she confessed that, prompted by jealousy, she had with her own hands poisoned the food and accused her husband of the act. M. Clanssenius took the woman's deposition and six months ago forwarded it to the authorities at Tabor. The law's course was slow, and it was nearly five months before the prisoner was granted a new trial, acquitted and released from prison. When lie was released he was physically a wreck, and his death is now a question of but a few years. The woman's revenge wa3 complete. A reporter calling on Mrs Jellinek found her a woman of about ;W years of age, but looking much older. She said she was glad her husband was out, and that the dreadful load was of! her mind. •You don't know,' (die added, ' how 1 have suffered since his imprisonment. I wouldn't go through the experience again if my life depended upon it. No, I will never live with him again and I know I will never see him.' She broke down again, and turned away to hide her grief.