Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-20
A MISER'S DEATH.
INNOCENT MANS NARROW ESCAPE.
Wat , Detective Accidentally Lsarned-A
Wife's Perfdy-StartIing Confessions
Which Explained aystefl-
Gus hurder.

II WAS a wild, dismal night in the
snring of lSS2; the darkness was so in-
tense that it could almost he felt, ana
the occasional dashes Of rain broke
through the mist that had been hang-
inc over the Sinaloa river in the horIh-
west Of Mexico.
l. was near midnight, ami boatnlan
named Vergas was vigorously Puiling
his boat howeward when a souhu lei'
nm nj, ears that caused him TO stop sud
denly and involuntarily place his hand
mon his pistol in the breast pocket OF
his coat.
The report of pistol was followed
almost instantly by cry Of mortal
agony that stopped abruptly As II tue
effort had been too much, and the voice
of the utterer had been
Chokcd by the GHsPsOt Death
For a moment or two the boatman sat
mntionless, listening intently.
Then again rang out the report OF
another pistol shot, followed by another
shrek Of pain, and in accents so weird
and unearthly that the boatman shud-
,iered and still sat listening in sort OF
,,upefied awe as he peered through the
mist in the direction from which the
sounds had proceeded.
As he did so light suddenly blaZed
,p lnridiv through the fog, and another
voice rose feebly in an appeal for as
>>lance:
Help. Murder! Help"
The last word died away in sort Of
sob hardly distingUishable above the
isp of the water against the boat; but 1t
AROUSED the lOatman from the spell
that seemed 10 have come over him,
and ura,piug lis oars he pulled hur-
E.ily i'm the direction of the sounds.
sill
The Light Shot Through the Mist.
though gradually growing fainter. Just
ND from the water, round the bend of
tie river. stood an old house in which
rhr Srror Kaymonde and his wife lived.
When Ntrgls, the bOatman, nesred
this place he saw light in the building
Suddenly pXtinguiShed, and shortly
aflerward heard a whispered CONVERSE
lion and saw the figures OF man and
woman, the former carrying tin box,
walk hurriedly along the river bank to
where small boat lay; a pair of oars
we're aCrOs, the seat, and, entering the
Iua,, the man deposited the box in the
tern, after which he assisted his COM
ramon 10 Il seat, and i'm few moments
al were
Lost 60 View
in the thick mist. SergaS decided to
rIncted home and await the morrow
before further investigating the cause of
the mysterious circumstances which
had OCCaSiOued him so much alarm.
On the morning after the occurrence
II the incidents above referred to,
urighbOr OfSenOr RaymundO called at
the latter'S house, but receiving no
answer to his repeated knocks, decided
jn enter. Proceeding to the second
Ntery without encOunteriug any of the
inmates, he was about to depart, when
he happened To pass the sleeping apart
mcut Of Senior RaymundO. As he gaZed
into the room an involuntary eXclama-
Lion of horror broke from his lips, for
the spectacle that met his view was in
,'"t'i CHASTITY one.
stretched upon the floor Of the room
was the body of Senior RaymundO, wei
.rIing IN =
Pool of BLOOD
that had flowed from his wounds. His
head WAS smashed in as though 10y u
c.ub, his body riddled with dagger
wounds, and his features mashed to
Fuip.
~,uor Raynundo was an old miSer,
very ugly and quite stupid. He was
accustomed TO carry his money, which
hr boarded, i'm Il tin box slang to his
waist under his blouse. On the con-
lraTy his wife was not only young but
beautiful, and it was cur
rent gossip that the compile lived any
thing bat happy life.
There lived in the neighbOrhOOd a
fellow named Garcia, with
whom Se nor Raymundo had a fierce
quarrel on the day before the murder,
heCAUse the latter refused to loan Garcia
4 sam Of money. suspicion pointed To
q h. man a.
The Probable Murderer.
and when search was made tor him he
" - nowhere To- he found. Sonora Ray
muudO WAS also missing, but ~ she was
avcU-tomed 10 frequently visit her rela-
lIv,s snme distance of, and on these Oc-
rH=iuns TO remain quite 4 while away,
10 particular Importance was attached
to her absence.
Garcia was apprehended few days
after the murder, while at work rs a
farm hand in little village some dis
tauce from the scene OF the terrible
crime, and lodged in Jail. On the sec
ord day after mis- incarceration, he at
tempted To dash out his brains with a
stone which he had forced out of the |
wall of his cell; but, when his project |
having failed, he was cured of his
wounds, ne declared that il was through
shame of being wrongfully accused of
the crime Of numbering Senior Raymun-
U0 Elat he had
Attempted TO Commit Suicide.
and that the real assassin was known To
sonora Raymundo.
Nergas. the bOatman, i'm the mean
time mad informed the authorities of
what he had heard and seen on the
night he was in his boat on the river,
aud from the description of the woman
whom he had seen entering the boat
an the same night il was cOniectured
that she and Sonora Raymundo were
Tie same.
Garcia stated that ne had seen Sonora
l:aYmuudO and a strange man cOnverS-
lll- A'N-NAAAfl VII tue AAktlll DOl VI lllN
murder, aud had overheard the sonora
ssming all hour when her male friend
should meet her.
When the sonora returned 10 her
tome and learned the facts OF the terri
ole crime, she was greatly overcome
with apparent grief. and, wringiug her
haM,ts aud tearing her hair, she refused
10
Listen 10 Confidence.
aud il was feared by many of her friends
that her hysteria would end fatally.
When an officer informed her that she
was under arrest on suspicion Of being
an accOmplice 10 the murder of her
husband, she Indignantly repudiated
The charge, ana with the fiercenesS OF a |
tiger spraDg at the officer, and would
have done him bodily harm had not as
slstance been at hand. She was lodged
IN jail pending her trial.
When the detective who was intrnSt-
Ell with the unrayeling of this mystery
\ u.