MURDER MADE EASY.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 15

MURDER MADE EASY.

In Oscdo, a villago in Galicia, a most extraordinary case of manslaughter was perpetrated by a young man of good position, who, upon coming out of church, turned upon a young farmer and firod five revolver shots at him point blank, and with deadly effect.. It appears that the young gentleman is tho political boss oj tho village, free to do ax he likes, considering all the inhabitants as vastiy inferior, and as poueriul within his jurisdiction as any monarch within his reu-m. To snch an extent Lad this feeling of superiority grown that tho young man grew to hate all intercourse with his neighbours — so niuih so that in church he hud several (square, yards s^t apart in Iront of the aJtar whero no' one was admitted excepting he und hia family. Several formers, angered by the shumeless proceedings of their cacique, and headed by tho young victim of the crime, strode boldly across tho reserved square during church service, whereupon the cacique's unger was aroused, 'and upon going home ho rapidly and silently went up to tho trespasser and tired upon him. The murderer will probably be allowed to go scot free, fot h« is tho political boss of the village, comparable only to tlio feudal lords of th*e thirteenth nnd fourteenth centuries ; besides, ho is protected by dome mightier bo-?s, who is able to .make tho Ministers tremble in their shoen in Madrid.— Daily Chronicle.

Both tho agricultural and the pastoral circles of Maribnrough aro in good heart, and are entertaining satisfucloy pn>BHects. A splendid autumn hnß been «><c'perrenccd (says the local paper), and the winter conditions aro exceptionally good Farming operations have J)mi carried out under favourable conditions, and ono of the leading settlejs on th* Wnirau l\iiii. Bays thnt he was novt-r further advanced than at the present timo. A huge aio.i j h being devoted to jmms on this oconsiim. The same pastoral iepnrt tomes from the pastoral country, ulmre uwifcs is plentiful and the sheep are thriving. The good growth has afforded an exceptional degiee of strength to the ewes, and the lambing season, <vhi':h oomincnce'i about the first of August, should have profitable lewlta.