Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-10-27
WICKED LITTLE ALFONSO.
He n Caught DebRuehing the wife
and Daughter of one OF his Army
Onicers-Thc King 6oing 60 the Devil
-Csmplicity In Murder.

Omcers-Thc King 6otng 20 the Devil
-CsmpIicity In n Murder.
Foreign Correspondence of the Boston journal. /
MADRID, Sept is, 1877. -Revolution is
again imminent in Spain. Tho usual pre-
cursors Of a storm (candestinc handbills
addressed TO the army and To the peoplel,
have already made their appearance on the
streets, and are slyly passed from hand to
hand under the noses Of the police, and in
spite of all their efforts to suppress them
The spirit of revolution is Just now doubly
iomented by II mysterious and foul tragedy,
all knowledge of which the authorities are
valnly cndeayOring to coYer up. Several
persons have already been arrested and
hurried off into dungeons, nobody knows
where, simply for having been heard speak
ing of the subject on the streets or in the
Gales. The newspapers have been threat
ened, aud not one of them darcs lisp
syllable on the subject. But tits constantly
talked of in bated breath, with closed doors
in fact the whole story has been printed on
small slips of paper and secretly circulated.
The facts appear TO be rs follows: The
King and the Duke of Scxto have been
corrupting the wife and daughter Of an
officer in the army, whose home is second
or third door from Mr.. Cushing's. He was
in the North fighting, but hearing of the
King frequent visits at his house he came
suddenly to the city, and entering his home
late at night, found the King and the Duke
of SeNto In the house; shot at the King,
but missed him, and was himself shot dead
by the DHke of Sexto, who was behind
him. The street police heard the pistol
shots, and came running to the rescue, but
were sent about their business. The body
was given 10 watchman, who carried u
nobody knows where, and is now receiving,
il is said, 800 a month The maid servant,
who was An eye witness of the murder, dis
appeared tho next dsy-some say was Us
sassinated. But she had had time to toll
her lover When he found she was dis
posed Of he hid himself for some days, but
venturing out at last, was found dead in the
street, stabbed, one morning. ...H
Tho judge before whom tho chse of the
first murder should have come, being ~
man of more than usual frmuess of charac-
ter, and having n knowledge of the facts.
was determined that some Kind of Justice
should be done. Many. fatteFing official
positions were offered him if he would de-
sist from his purpose, which he sternly re
fused to do when suddenly one of the
papers announced that be had committed
suicidel The other papers do not dare even
to mention his death, or to make any com-
ments. And the courts have taken no
notice of the whole business, though the
story is already repeated from Lisbon 20
Barcelona. The mother aud daughter have
been priv ately hurried off to Bayonne.
Already rhymes like the following have
been printed and circulated on the streets
''En la doctrina ChristianH
Dice el quinto, no matsr;
Pero In gente Alfonsina,
Por miedo de no pecsr,
Tiene un Septo que asesina.
Which rendered literally is
In the Christian doctrine
Says the fifth commandment, DO nos
kill,
hut the Alfonsist gentry
Por fear of not SHINING,
Have sixth: Do thou assassinate.
As the Catholics have omitted the incon-
venient second commandment, the sixth
has become their fifth. The pun on the
Duque do Sexto's name is very telling, N
the last line may also be read in spanish,
Have SeXto, who assRssinatesn
can not vouch for the truthfulness of
all the details of this horrible story. But
there seems to be no doubt that the officer
came home at night and found Alfonso and
the Duque de Sexto in the company of his
wife and daughter; that he was shOt by
one of them and his body disposed of secret
ly; that the mRid-serysut and her lover
have suddenly disappeared that the wifs
and daughter have been secretly conveyed
to Bsyonnei that the Judge died by vio-
lence; that there has been no judicial in
vesugation Of the villainy; that there 10
intense feeling in the community; that the
papers have been profoundly silent that
several persons have been imprisoned for
talking of the subject; that Canovas del
Castillo, the Primo Minister, has resigned; :.
and that radical change has beon made
in the Ministry in n liberal dirrriinn in the,
hope Of wArding of a revoiuuvr @ ~
The young King appears ~ l." going the
way Of his mother. As /, cu-tumary in
Spain, those who surround IA. Sovereign
fr,r tn D. he. O.
Is said, Arnuleo was ruined and tho peace
of his fa'' ilr destroyed. They SOW the wind
and res 2. whirlwind The corruption
in high l...y'- and in low il appalling.
From the crown ofthc head TO the sole Of
the foot there is no soundness in them.