Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-07-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DOUBLE EXECUTION. The Opision Nativaele publishes a letter from Barcelona, containing a dramatic account of a double execution which has just Minna place in that town. A maid servant, named Feogoria Fula, ailed by her lover, Victorian() Ucieta, murdered her master, who had nuide a will in her favour. The judicial investigation and trial lasted no less than three years, and resulted in the condemnation of both the accused, who, according to the custom, were taken on the evening which preceded the execution to a chapel, to reinabi thereuntil the next morning. There the two cowrie* were only separated by a curtain, and the woman uttered such loud cries during the night that tier accomplice had several times to impose silence on her. The most distinguished ladies of the locality attended the 'wOman to offer their consolations. The man was surrounded by monks. During all that time the boys of the choir, clad in red, yellow, or blue, from head to foot, went through the streets, a salver in one hand and the bell in the other, asking for alms to meet the wants of the condemned prisoners, on earth and in heaven—that is to say, for the cost of their interment and the performance of masses for their souls. The exectuion by the garotte (strangling) took pipe outside one of the gates of ' the city, in a plain to which' the victims were conducted by a long procession of penitents. The corpses remained until six in the evening (for more than ten hours), exPoSed to the gaze of a crowd which came to contemplate eagerly the horrible contortious their faces had undergone. DEATH OF THE INDIAN ELEPH ANT AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN& Since the demise of "Joe," the chimpanzee, at Regent'spark, London 18 months ego, which followed closely upon that of the fine old rhinoceros, the Zoological Soceity have not suffered so severe a loss as that which has befallen them in the death of a female Indian elephant This fine animal died suddenly on Wednesday night. The cause of its death has not been accurately discovered, though the body has been subjected to a poet motion, examination. The elephant in question will be remembered as one of those upon whose backs it has been the delight of thousands of children to ride year after year. Its exact age has not been ascertained ; but it is believed to have been about 20 years old. The immense quanity of food consumed by the animal daily appears almost incredible. It is calculated that on ordinary days, the amount of food in the shape of buns, biscuits, and fruit given to each elephant by the visitors, together with that sunned regularly by the keepers, cannot have been less than eighty pounds. The Indian elephant is as a rule, much more tractable and capable of domestication than its African relative. The subject of this memoir was generally on exceMnt terms with its keepers, whose voice was in most cases sufficient to ensure strict obedience to their instructions. A gentle tap with a cane or whip was all that was necessary to recall the wandering attention of the animal. The brain weighed over twelve pounds. It will be placed in spirits and deposited in the musem of the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr. it. IL Garrod, the prosector of the Zoological Society, is about to prepare the skeleton of the animal for exhibiton.  AN