The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-29
MEXICAN VENGEANCE 8.
An American and Mex can Woman
Founi with Their Eearts Pierced.
E-on ~ u Wortl Gl.ette

From the Fort Worth Gazette.
LAS CRUCES, MEXICO, July Side BY
side. with hands folded across their breasts,
Law the bodies OF a tall and rather handsome
American and a dark haired Mexican
womal, who for the look of deadly terror
which had been fixed on her features at the
/ moment of death, would have been con-
| sidered beautiful This was the sight waich
! met the eyes OF jose Marbles as he rode
| through tie chapparal bush on the north
! end II bis hacienda last week. Marrilos was
hunting lost bronco, and his attention was
attracted TO the brush By seeing a buzzard
flap heavily from the ground. An in
vestlgation showed that the bodies had been
brought TO the place aud deposited in the
Out-of-the-way spot with the evident inten-
tiOn OF having the buzzards and coyotes
hide all traces Of a most fearful crime.
\ double murder had been committed,
and the mode was evidence sufficient that
some Spaniard's jealousy had been aroused
and his vengeance had been as swift as it
was terrible. An examination of tine bodies
showed that both met death by the same
sure hand, the man first and the woman
afterward. Penetrating to the heart of the
man from the shoulder was a marrow stab
wound where the deadly stilleto had been
driven home from behind with one swift,
sharp blow. The heart had been cleft in
b"nAA ~ bAAS obiOhbt duu u6dbu lnubJ nave
been instantaneous, for a smile still played
on the lips of the handsome mouth.
The woman must have been a witness to
the crime, aud then became the second vic
| tim, for an awful look of horror and fright
was on her face, and sticking in her bosom
with its point resting in her heart, was the
weapon with which the terrible deed had
been committed-a long pearl-haudled
dagger
Two days later the mystery was cleared
by the Confession aud suicide of Pedro Jar
rdmilla, one of the wealthest and most
prominent ranchmen in the state. The
| knife which Yves left in the
heart OF the dead woman was the clew
| which led to tho unwilling of the single
skeln. The poinari was peculiar make,
| and attracted great attention by its finsh
and beauty. This dagger was placed on ex-
hibition, and a herder, who at one time
worked for Jarramilla, at once recognized
| II and said that his former master was Of
jealous and very revengeful disposition
This talk led to an investigation at the
ranch of JarramilIa, aud it was learned
that Donna Inez, the wife Of the rich ranch
| man, had disappeared from home 1t had
been given out at the ranch that she had
gone to the City Of Mexico on visit. Dol
| Pedro was arrested and, with several people
who were acquainted with the family, was
| taken to Marbles ranch and confronted
with the two dead bodies The woman was
at once identified as the wife Of Jarramilla:
none could tell who the man was. Don
| Pedro would say nothing except that he
knew nothing of his wife and had never
seen the man before. Jarramlla was
placed in prison, and after the first night
broke down and made full confession.
He said that the man was Richard Morri-
son, a surveyor from the United States who
had been engaged in laying route for
railroad near his ranch. The American and
! his wife paid so much attention to each
other that his suspicious were aroused, and
he determined to watch them. Que morn
ing he told the old story Of having to 90 to
a distant part Of the ranch ana said he
would be gone all day. He changed clothes
with herder and sent the man off on a
horse, while he remained at the corral. In
about 81 hour one of the boys of the place
s4d1lsd a horse aud rode rapidly toward
the surveyors camp. He soon returned
/ With Morrison. who went to the house. Jar
rauilla slipped 70 the room aud there beheld
a sig1s which turned him into a tiger He
crep: stealthily upon the couple and with a
swift stroke Of his dagger smote the man
down at the fest of his mistress. The wo-
man was too frightened to scream, and be-
fore she could recover from the shock of
the awful death the dagger was sheathed in
her own heart Don Pedro then called
together his people aud showed them what
he had done. That night the bodies were
placed in a wagon; and for two days the
party travelled until they thought they
were beyond all chance OF recognition, and
there they left the couple to be picked to
pieces by vultures and wolves.
After the confession Jarramilla was not
watched closely, and it is supposed that
some Of his servitors conveyed to him a
knife, for on the following morning he was
found dead with poniard sticking in his
heart