Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14

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teresting details of q recent tragedy anc
romance. The telegraph told a meaer,
story of the crime which was committee
last Fourth of July, but the romantic
part of the affair remained untold. Sad
Jim: Odd you notice a
toll-gate down the mountain A nice
little white cottage near the bank of a
creek Yes. There is where my old
mining pard, Frank Pareta, lived, and
there in that creek is where he drowned
his wife. Oh, she was a beauty, was
Franks wife. The handsomest Italian
girl l ever saw. Frank went all the way
to Italy to find and marry her, and now
he has killed her. This is how it came
about: Frank Pareta and | were work.
ing together several years in the mines
down there at Angels Camp, and one DAY
Frank said to me, Miguel, / am going to
get married when l get money enough to
buy that tollroad at Murphy's.' l laughed
at him and thought no more about it, as
women were scarce about Angels, and
Frank never mixed with them. But he
saved ali of his money, and In due time
left the camp and went to Italy. In a
few months he astonished the camp by
returning with a young girl wife, the
handsomest woman we had ever seen.
Frank was very proud of his prize and
fairly worshipped her. He bought her
everything she desired, dressed her gay
ly, decked her in jewelry and kept a girl
to wait on her. He bought her the toll
road for 81, 900 and built that pretty
little cottage you see there. But the girl
was not satisfied. She tired of her
elderly husband, and looked with
LOVING GLANCEs UPON d
MIXERS.
The husband was jealous, but he was kind
and patient. She was capricious and
abusive, but Frank lived on in hopes of
happier times. The toll gate keeper had
about $1,000 buried In the cellar, a ID this
hidden treasure he revealed to his pretty
Italian wife, who secretly appropriated
$500, and with it went to San Audreas,
the county seat, and applied for q divorce.
Frank heard of the divorce business, but
did not discover the loss of his $500 until
the morning of last Fourth of July.
There was a celebration at Murphy's
Camp, and Frank stayed at home to col
lect tolls. He went down to the cellar
and discovered the loss of $500. He
called on his wife and accused her of the
theft. At first she denied, but finally
acknowledged that she had taken it, and
detiantly announced that she intended to
use it to obtain a divorce, and positively
declined to give it up. Then the angry
husband went out and walked upanddown
in front of the house. Then he went and
gazed into the foaming mountain stream
which was swollen and deep. Then he
went to the house and quietly and calmly
invited his wife to a little walk with him.
She consented. The servant girl pro-
tested and warned the wife that her hus-
band intended to kill her. The man and
wife walked to the creek. There he
seized her by the throat, and after fur.
lively strangling her threw her body into
the stream to see her drown. An old
German living near witnessed the strug-
drew the half drowned women out of
the water. The husband seized her
again and plunged her once more into the
torrent. The old German once more
dragged the inanimate woman to the
shore. Again the brutal husband threw
her into the water and she tioated down
stream, from whence the old German
pulled her ~lifeless form. When taken to
the house the missing $500 and $3.50
more money was found sewed in her cor
set. She died with her COIN"
"And what became of the murderer
"He is in the county jail at San An
dreas awaiting trial. He is as happy as
a prince and sings merrily every
day. Of course he will hang and every
body in these regions will say, well
served"