A MURDER COMMITTED ON THE STAGE.
DnuiNG the performance of ono of Mi Dolibe's operas at Naples recently, n startling murder was accomplished on the staee, and in presence of a fashionable audience. The scene represented a battle. The chorists, attired as soldiers, fired their rifles at each other. Suddenly one of the chorists fell dead. A ball had penetrated to his heart. A panic ensued. The police discovered that one of tho chorists' rifles had been loaded with a ball cartridge, and that tho man who fired it had threatened to kill the very man that had fallen dead. The assassin confessed the crimo. Jealousy was the motive of this extraordinary mnrdrr.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2602, 16 March 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)
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113A MURDER COMMITTED ON THE STAGE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2602, 16 March 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)
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