The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-02-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LOVE AND MURDER: A FEARFUL TRAGEDY.  ! Some seven months ago, says a San Francisco paper, a family named Cayes transferred their residence from Monte Video to Rio, and with them came a man of 33 years of age named Heitor Monetta, who, having become enamoured of the eldest daughter, Genovese, deter. mined to cast his lot with them, and was betrothed to the object of his affections soon after his arrival here. According to his tale, upon the strength of these intimate relations existing between them, the father of the Cayes family borrowed at various times what money he possessed, and from that time he says a coldness was manifested to him by the parents, which finally induced hint to leave his residence in their house and remove to an hotel. Becoming more and more snnoyed at the increasing coolness of their connection, he at last determined to bring the matter to a crisis, and he wrote a note to the young lady, asking her to come to see him In a neighbour's house, the answer to which was that she could not, and did not wish to see him. Ile waited half an hour, and then departed, leaving a note for the girl. Apparently, however, his anxiety overpowered him, and he went to the Cuyas' house. There, in the kitchen, he found the mother, and on demanding whether the marriage was or was not to take place, he asserts that she began to abuse' him. He then appealed to the girl, who was sitting in the parlour, but she remained silent, and the mother, still more angry at the appeal, gave him a slap in the face. Furious at his reception be hurried to his hotel, and, taking a revolver from his trunk, returned to the Cuyas' house, where finding the mother reposing on a sofa he beat her upon the face with his fists and then shot her in the shoulder. At her cries Genovese rushed in, and was received with two shots which laid her dying. He then proceeded towards the stairs, but returning, shot is younger sister in the lungs and another in the stomach. and ran into the street. Pursued by the public hue arid cry, he directed his course to Rio Direita, but as he still Carried the revolver in his hand no one ventured t, stay him, and he was lost in the nightfall. For several days no trace of him could be ol,tained, but at length an intercepted letter revealed that he was staying at the d'ltalia at the Botanic Gardens. On the afternoon of the 10th a party of police. disguised as excursionists, drove' to the hotel and managed to examine the house and grounds without being suspected, but without finding Monetta. Seventy more men were sent on from Rio during the night, and by-three am, the grounds and house were surromni,i• At three the house was entered, and, after searching tho rooms in vain, he was discovers ii on the roof, from which, after being summoned, he cause down and surrensierol quietly, and was taken to the city. Of the viotims his fury, Genovese died oa the day succeeding the cats!' trophe, but the other three, although severely injured, it is believed will recover. Another slaughter, who els fortunately out of the house at the fatal hour, thus ea' coped, but the father, who was likewise absent, was 0 overcome by the shock of the misfortune which 63,1 fallen on him that he died d during the night of the sth from an attack of cerebral congestion.  AT TILE RECENT NkWBURY PETTY SgssioNS. Marla Giles, a midwife, who has for many years ,e,' the sobriquet of "the cunning woman," and Vilra°— 'lsranter, a labourer, with whom slie cohabited, were pieced in the dock charged with obtaining divers sun'' of money from Isaac Rivers, by means of fAlwr pre(' tenoes, under the pretence of muting, by rn.'"' ° witchcraft, a watch which he had lost to be reitured him. The evidence showed an amount of ignorance 7. gullibility on the part of the man swindled re.lir ° plorable.—The prisoners were committed for °la.