SPANISH REVENGE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 10

SPANISH REVENGE.

The people of Madrid have been verymuch interested in a remarkable criminal trial which has just closed. A physician of Archidona was engaged to a beautiful girl of his native town. The doctor washandsome and very popular with the ladies.. One day he changed his mind about marrying, and went away for a stay in Granada. While there he heard that his former betrothed was receiving attentions from one of his friends, a tax-collector.. Jealousy made his former love revive as soon as he heard this news, and he immediately returned to Archidona. He found the tax-collector under his Dulcinea’s window. The doctor at once disclosed himself and demanded that his fiancee should decide between her old lover and the taxcollector. She chose the doctor, and the two were married within the shortestpossible time, greatly to the fury of the discarded tax-collector. The marriage was a happy one, and undisturbed by any quarrel or illfeeling. About a year later a female child was born. Meanwhile the tax-collector had apparently become their devoted friend. One day some six months ago the neighborhood was shocked by aterrible"explosion. It waa thought at first that it wa3 the powder magazine, but it proved to have taken place at the dootoPs villa. That morning the doctor had received a box by the railway com* pany’s express. It. contained an infernal machine. In opening the box the machine exploded, and both the physician and his wife were instantly killed. The crimewas slowly but directly traced to the taxcollector, and a despatch announces hia condemnation to death..