A MELBOURNE LOVE TRAGEDY.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7793, 8 October 1890, Page 4

A MELBOURNE LOVE TRAGEDY.

Lovere' quango with firrntftn« ate nb present the fashion in Melbourne. A nhorfc time ago a young woman named LUy Bigloy arranged a meeting with itn Italian glttPßcnttcr m»m«d TJJnrioo Botta, ostensibly for the purpooo of talciog a last farewell owing to a disagreement which had ocourred botwren them, and she took tho opportunity of giving him tho contents of a oix chambered revolver. Botta received tho following letter : "Molbourno, Angußt 22, 1890. " Eorico,— Yiu will wonder at receiving this note from aie, but I hav> made up toy mind to go to Now South Wmlos noxt Tuesday morning. I vthh then lo bo dono with you for good. [ ■want you to roturn mo all tho lottora I havo Bont you, and also toy portrait*. X wieh to return you all yourw (including proeontfi), bcoHuao if I koep thorn X might bo tomptod to Imvo you u f> for a broach of promino case, mb Boniri of thorn aro very loving indeed. So if you will ploaßo moot me for tho ksfc timo without (ail on Monday noxt, at half-past "7 o'clock, at the covnor of Buesell and Lonednlo atrpots. you will gave a lot of trouble If not; for toy sake, then for your own.— Youra, for tho last timo, "Lily Bagi/ey." In no way euspoclin^ «ny dangor to hinißelf, Botta mot Misa Bagloy Hccoiding to appoinimout, and bo far at) her manner was concerned, thero was nothing to indioato that oho hud rceolvod on no doaporato a crimo i\a that of murder. Sho was aoiaowhat reproachfvjl towards her lovor, owing to tho fact that ho had not soon her for eomo little timo, but ultimately they seemed to have become reconciled. During some part of tho evening they adjournpd to # a hotel in Russell Htrcet, where Botta engaged a room, and it waa hero that tho accused drew a eixchambered revolver from her pockot, and, lovelling it at Botta, threatened tbafc if ho did not marry her eho would murder him. B>tta allogod that he had heard she had misconducted herself with some other men, but added | that if sbo wero able to clear botself from this cbargo he would undertake to marry her. Pacified will) thia nndoretanding, and denying; that eho had been unfaithful, she quiotly loft tho hotel without having attracted any attention j but on reaching tho Btreot Botta, flowing the firofc opportunity, rau ( quickly away from the accused. Determined ovidently that she was not to bo thwarted in her deliberate intention of murdering him, aho Boon fo'lowod him in tho direction of hift udc'o'o t<hop, at 182 R-useell street, KnockiDg at the door, she onqui»-ocl whether ho wna at home, and being anawered in tho affirmative by a lad in tbo shop, ahe pm>hod tho door open, and, walking deliberately up to Botta, fired four fjhotß at him. One of the shots grazed tho loft arm, leaving a aovero flosh wound, whilst auothor shot entered hie hip. Botta, notwithstanding bis ■wounds, wont for tbo aid of tho police, and had tho woman arrested on a charge of attempted murder, lie then had tho bullet in hie hip extrica'ed at the Molbourno Hoßpita!. M'eu Bugley is of pfe-poseesßJDp, appoaranco, and is a Bislor of the wife of Donuld Dinnio, tho Scottish athlete.