The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-12-15

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But ere you get it halfway up
Adown he goes, KERcHUG.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN HAvANA.-Harana;
Nou az, lS53.-Our city has been thrown
into quite a Sc nsation or horror by the per.
petration of one of the most horrible muir
'ders that can be imagined. Matilde Domin-
guez the victim, an actress Of celebrity,
whose grace and beauty, added to her youth,
attracted scores of admirers to see her per-
formanOes, appeared before a crowded house
on the night of the 22d inst, and early the
next morning It was reported that she had
been assassinated by her husband who COM
mitted the crime in n fit of rage, stabbing
her about forty times with a dagger; after
which he attempted suicide by iniicting
wounds upon his own person with the same
weapon. Upon making inquiry it appears
that some of the unfortunate females ad-
mirers had rot admired in vain, and it is
even said that a very great parsonage had
been favored by her acquiescence; however,
the husband, in cases where benefits ac-
companied acquaintance, in which he par
ticipated, squandering the fruits of his wife's
amiability at the gamb ing table, felt no
JChiOuo1B Ou IhC SOubluIl, uhib bbS pl'NC
that should be demanded. The cause of the
jealousy was that a little ugly employee OF
the the atre, with whom the deceased was
much enamored, was unproductlve, which
raised the fury Of the assassin, and after
much quarreling the murderer, on the MORN
ing in question, having written during the
night several letters, in which he is suppos-
ed to have declared the motives of the dread
full crime he was about to commit, made an
assault upon her, and dispatched the poor
creature with the number Of stabs | have
mentioned.
have been informed that at the moment
the crime was committed the servants had
been sent out by the husband, and when one
Of these returned, being unable to get ad-
mission to the house, the alarm was given;
an entrance was forcibIy made, when the
most revolving scene was presented in the
expiring person of the beauti' ul but frail IA
vorite, oil hacked and gashed, and covered
with her blood.
The corpse was borne to the grave upon
the shoulders of her brother actors, who have
wept her untime y fate; it was attended by
a numerous cortege of friends, and an i'm
mense rabble which conducted ~itselfin the
most disgusting and disorderly manner.
Upon its being mentioned to a respecta-
BILE individual that she had been borne on
the shoulders of her former companions to
her last home, he remarked that not many
months since a bull-ighter had been carried
to the grave in a similar manner. You
must understand that the dead are usually
conducted to burial in a hearsc, and that to
bear the corpse on the shoulders of friends
is a mark oil distinction shown towards the
great and the good.
1t is a singular coincidence that the moth
err of the4victim met a similar fate at the
hands of her husband, and that both father
and mother belonged 20 the stage, and the
father died by his own hands Immediately af-
ter the deed; and it is wen said that the
crime just now committed was with the same
dagger. used on a former occasion. = Cor.
". Y. Tribune.