The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-02-29 00:00:00

A DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN BRAZIL.
The following particulars of a dreadful tragedy
which has just been enacted at Brazil are from the
A n9lo-Brazilian Timts

Sdne seven months ago a family named Cuy:ls transferred
their residence from Montevideo to Rio, and with them came
a nem 01 33 years of age named Bettor Monetta, oh, having
become enamoured of the eldest daughter, tienoveva, deter-
mined to east his lot with them, and was betrothed to the
object of his affections soon after his arrival hero Ac-
cording to his tale, upon the strength of thews intimate
relations existing between them, the father of the Cabs
family borrowed at various times what money he possessed,
and from that time he says a coldness was manifested to hint
by the parents, which filially induced him to leave his
residence in them house and remove to an hoteL Becoming
niece and more annoyed at the increasing c.i.fss of their
connexion, he at last determined to bring the matter to a
crisis, aitil he wrote a note to the young lady, asking her to
come to ere him in a neighbour's house, the answer to which
was that she could not, and did not wish to see him. it.
waited half an hour and then departed, leaving a note for
the girl. Apparently, however, his anxiety overpowered
hint, and lie went to the Cut's,' house. There in the kitchen
he found the mother, and on demanding whether the
marriage was or was not to take place he asserts that she
began to abium hint. lie then appealed to the girl, who was
sitting in the parlour, but she remained silent, and the
mother, still more angry at the appeal, rave him a slap in
the face. Furious at his reception he hurried to his hotel,
and, taking a revolver from his trunk, returned to the Cuyas'
house, where, finding the mother reposing on a sofa,
he beat her own the face with his tints and then shot
her in the shoulder. At her cries ilenoveva rushed
In, and was received with two shalt which laid
her dying. lie then proceeded towards the stairs,
but, returning, shot a }ounger sister in the lungs and
another in the stomach, and ran into the street (Rose:far
Pursued by the public hue anti cry he directed his course to
Rio Biretta, but as he still carried the revolver in his hand
no one ventured to stay him, and ho was lost in the night-
fall. . . .

For several days no trace of him could he obtained, but at
length an intercepted letter revealed that he was staying at
the hotel 11 talia at the 11.danic•gartiens. On the afternoon
of the loth a party of police, disguised as excursionists, drove
to the hotel and managed to examine the Maze and grounds
without being suspected, but without finding Monett.
Seventy more men were sent on from KM during the night,
and by three a as. the grounds and home were surrounded.
At three the house was entered, and, after searching the
rooms in vain, be was discovered on the roof, from which
after being summoned, he came down and surrendered
quietly, and was taken to the city. lit the victims to his
fury, Gesioveva diodes the day succeeding the catastrophe,
but the other three, although severely injured, it is believed
will recover. Another daughter, who was fortunately out of
the house at the fatal hour, thus escaped, but the father,
who was likewise absent, was so overcome by the shock of
the misfortune which had fallen on him that be died during
the night of the Bth from an attack of cerebral congestion.