Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-06-12
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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1928.
Miscellaneous extracts from English papers receiv-
ed al the office of the Phenix Gazette.

SPANISH JEALousl.-The following tragicai
and interesting story is given in French paper,
under the date Of Bayonne, March -
"B. Severeti, aged 81, landhoider, reported
TO be in opulent circumstances, was married a.
bout six years ago to a beautiful yourg person,
then only l6 years Of age Every thing indi'
Gated that they we're living on the most happy
terms They had but one child, born during
the first year of wedlock.
ain November last, an elderly lady, from St
lean de Luz, took an apartment for her SON,
who was in in health, al Severeti's farmhouse
He had been educated at Paris, was highly &C
complished, and his person very handsome, but
his morals were not Of the most rigid kind, and
il was apparent that his indisposition had been
occasioned by dissipation. He soon became
bn friendly terms with SeveIet and his wife;
cut, as i. may be conjectured, he gave prefer
once to the latter, in consequence OF her kind
and soft manners, and also for the repeated at
tenlions which he was receiving al her hands
''The husband was occasionally obliged TO
absent himself for TWO or three days together,
on business; upon which occasions, al least lat
,erly, his daughter, about i've years old, was in
the custom Of sleeping with the stranger who
was now nearly recovered, and oil whom she
was as fond as of her own father. Whether
Sev,re,i was naturally Of JEALOUS disposition,
lions thrown out by one OF his friends who liv-
ed at ST. Jago, a village about mile from the
farm house, has not yet been positively ascer-
tanned. Certain il is, thai for the last month
he had testified reserved behaviour TO his
wife. and with which she had frequently re-
proached him.
"It was evident 10 the stranger, thLt The dire
full passion was raging in Severcti's. breast; and
as nj, health might now be said To be re-esiab'
lished ne had determined to leave The farm
house in few days; and with this resolution
he acquainted the family. Severet expressed
his sorrow, and pressed him 20 remain AZ least
for a few DAYS ionger ss,.tNss -ssm-hs would be
sorry, he added, not TO meet with him on his
return. The young man readily complied with
the wish, end Stvewti set out on his Journey
But. instead OF proceeding TO the place he men
toned, he remained concealed an .he neighbor>
hood of his house; aud when he thought that
all the inmates were retired to rest, he gently
let himself in through the door that looks mo
the garden, and which he must have been SUR
prised al not finding locked. This was about
nine o'clock; half an hour previous 10 this, his
wife had gone TO the cottage Of one of the lA>
borers, only hundred yards of, to visit and adj
minister assistance 10 poor woman who was
Dangerously i'll; she had not yet returned when
her husband arrived
"To his bed chamber, as il may be supposed,
he instantly proceeded; and finding that his
wife was absent, he became frantic with rage;
he ran 10 the kilcnen, snatched up knife, and,
rushing into The chamber OF the young stranger,
he few to the bed. There was light sufficient
10 perceive that two persons were sleeping in
il; he raised one hand, and with the other pull
ing away the clothes, ne plunged the insrru-
ment of death into the bosom Of his infant
daughter, who was fast asleep by The side Of the
young stranger; he was about to repeat The
blow, which also must have proved fatal 10. his
guest, VIXEN he heard the voice Of his wife, no
had jus, entered lower room, calling ou' for
assistance, as the laborer's wife, she exclaimed,
was then expiring.
s'The wrelched Seversii now discovered tina,
he had murdered his own daughter! when,
turning the fatal weapon against his breast, he |
stabbed himself to the heart, and instantly ex-
pred"
CURIOUS MODE OF EMBEzzLiNG MONEY AND |
coNcKALINe THE THEFT BY SHAM paRcELs.-Atl
Guildhall, on Tuesday, Thomas Kirk Was I
brought before Sir Peter Laurie, charged with |
having committed various frauds to large a.
mount upon his employer, Mr.. Fleming; AN old |
established and very respectable pawnoroker,
in Newgate-street. 1t appeared in evidence, |
that the prisoner has been in the employ Of the |
prosecutor upwards of seven years, and was his |
confidential servant, placed in authority over
the other shopmen, which confidence and au-
thority he has made use Of TO transfer large |
sums of money from bis masters pocket to his
own, by siratagem which canno, but be high |
ly interesting 10 pawn-brokers in general-viz |
by charging the shop cash account, from time |
10 time, with various sums purporling to have
been lent by him upon good pledges in the due |
course Of business, when 10 fact no such sums |
had been lent al ALL and making up fictitious
pledges 10 cover the fraud. This stratagem was |
discovered quite by accident; for though his |
master has been for some time past aware that
there was heavy deficiency somewhere, he
could not ascertain where, and be never for
single moment suspected the prisoner OF any |
thing wrong until Monday last, when happen
ing, from mere curiosity, to open parcel prr-
porting to contain ga pocket book, miniature,
q brooch and coin, and 10 have been pledged
for sos, he found nothing therein but moul- |
dy old pocket book, not worth enc farthing and |