A WESTERN TRAGEDY.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7267, 15 October 1891, Page 4

A WESTERN TRAGEDY.

(Continued from 4th page.) physical appearance, genial diapoaitioo, warm and goneroua nature, and ever ready to do n (good turn to hit neigh* bor or perform tome deed of obarity or kindoeas to tbe Buftering, and vrithal ai hard a toiler as the rest. He be* came a genoral favorite among all the rougb miners. One night, with some oorupamoDS, oo his way to his tent after the game had closed and Senorita DoloreB had retired, he passed tho tent of the fair Spaniard, and while peeping for an imtant tbiough the canvas lapel of her abode was suddenly, in a playful freak, pushed by hia oompaniood through the dour into tho darkneos of her tent and fell prostrate upon Ita floor. Without a moment's hesitation, or an enquiry as tu the intruder'a identity, ohe eprnng upon him like a tigress in ita lair and plunged her d»Rger repeatedly in his prostrate form, until ho lay a bleeding oorpse at her fe*t. laformation of the bloody deed saou reached every miner ia tho camp, and alt hurried to the epot whero lay the victim of her mad fury. The Bight of his fair young face, and sunny h»ir clotted with his life-blood, and tha innumerable ghastly wounds upon hii body bb it lay uncovered in the hands of the dootor, who hoped to find some spark of life remaining, bo wurkeu upon the sympathies of the minera that some cheeks long unused to tears wore wet with weeping. The rage of his rough friends knew no boundB. The woman was instantly seized and placed in the custody of guards while the Vigilanco Committee of Dowoieville should determine her fate. Tbat decree was death by hanging, and tbo murderess, with her hand yet reeking with tho blood of her victim, was taken to the upper bridge of tho Yuba and there hanged until hfu was extinct. JSuoh wus the Hwift punishment meted out by tho rude populace in the exoitement of her hour. — Harper's Magazine,

As f.ir ns know, but one woman died at the hands o* the vigilantes of California. She was a Spanish woman of remarkable beauty, who dealt the name of montc in the early days of Downievilte. Clothed in her gay attire, her dark lustrous eyes flashing with the excitement of the game and a piofusion of dark locks falling upon her shoulders, together with a voluptuous form and auperb carnage, she was tho object of much attention from tho rough miners and oihers who gathered mound tho table and sat benoath her spell at the fascinating game of montc. A mong the miners was a young man who had come from Kentucky to the distant El Dorado to seek his fortuno Rmong its gold hills, He was of fino

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