The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-10-05

A SPANISH TRAGEDY. "A shocking
story is told by Spanish correspondent
Of the London Standard On the out
skirts of the Castillo de las Guardias, a
village some eight miles from Seville,
stands q small unpretending farm house,
tenanted by hitherto thriving and indus
trious labo-ing man and his wife They
had not been married very long, and q
baby had just arrived to complete their
domestic happiness. Among the acqunin-
tauces Of this young couple were gypsy
and his wife, with whom they were on
friendly terms, the gypsy being employed
as an agent in the disposal of the farm
produce and purchase and sale Of animals,
etc. On the birth Of the child, therefore,
the gypsy couple wished to be its sponsors,
and the request was readily granted.
The baptismal day having arrived, the
whole household, with the exception of
the mother and gypsy woman, who re-
manned in attendance, proceeded to the
church. a distance of two miles. After
everybody had left, and sufficient time
had been given for the party to get well
out Of hearing, the gypsy woman, armed
with a pistol, approached the bedside OF
the invalid, and threatened her with death
in case of refusal, demanded of her all the
money that was in the house. The poor
woman without a moments hesitation, in
dieated that all their small fortune was in
3 drawer in the lower part of chest in an
adjoining room. No sooner had the gypsy
entered this room to obtain the cash than
the invalid jumped out of the bed, ran to
the door, secured the woman inside, and
seizing her husbands trabuco or blunder-
buss. rushed outside the house TO the win
dow by which the gypsy might escape,
and presenting the gun, threatened her
with instant death if she moved, at the
same time raising loud cries for help,
which, unhappily, no one appears to have
heard In the meanwhile the christening
party were on their return. Meeting two
Of the guardia civile, mutual compliments
passed, and the soldiers were asked to
come to the farmhouse and partake of the
modest fiesta prepared for the occasion.
The proposal and its ready acceptance
mnst have somewhat disconnected the
gypsy man, for he now proposed to run
on before to see that all was ready, and
begged to be allowed to carry the child.
On reaching the house he Immediately
perceived that his design had in some
way miscarried Approaching the woman
at the window, he desired her to let his
wife go free, or otherwise he would kill
her child. Disbelieving the threat she
declined, and without another word the
man whipped out his knife, and with a
blow nearly severed the little innocent's
head from his body, tossing the quivering
corpse upon its mother. Maddened by
this horrible act, the woman turned her
gun upon the man, and laid him dead at
her feet The explosion and screams
brought the guardia civile almost instan-
taneously to the house, one of whom,
rushing in and unlocking the door whore
the GYPSY was confined, was at once shot
through the heart by that woman. The
second guardis civile hearing this second
explosion hurriedly entered the house,
and, seeing his comrade dead on the floor
and the woman with the still smoking
pistol in her hand, raised his carbine and
killed her where she stood.