A Terrible Tale.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2007, 20 December 1886, Page 2

A Terrible Tale.

Thi following horrible ctory u reported in an Iteiien paper. The incident occurred •t S. Giovanni, e Teduaoio, a town near Neplee. A poor mad women, laletly believed to here hydrophobia, wee followed in the atreete by a mob intent on killing her. Bnumidiy one man repeatedly took a big atone with both laode and threw it at her. The unhappy creature fell under the blow*, rising only to fall again. The crowd wee inspired by the brutal fury so easily propagated in a mob when it believes itself justified in executing summary justice on some miserable oreature-a fury that is only increased at the sight of blood. There was actual rivalry as to who should give the murderous fatal blow. Women threw stones, chairs, whatever came first to hand. ' Strong young men struck at the poor maniac with thick sticks. Weak and 4»«y with jaie, the unfortunate creature crawled along, her hair dishevelled, her taoe covered with blood and dirt. In this state she reached tbs house ol the bead policeman, who stood regard ins the scene with crossed arms from the causeway, surrounded by his subordinates. The mob now proceeded to bind her. In fact, a slip knot was made in a rope, and passed round her neck, and she was thus dragged along the ground into a court yard, her head ctriking the pavement repeatedly. Then her feet were tied with another rope, and her hands with a thin string. But toe owner of the court yard drove her out again, upon which the mob fastened her by toe rope round her neck to a ting on the closed dooe, and by the rope round her feet toe post opposite. Now she was cafe, and toe moo began to mock her, having no longer any tear. At every movement of her body the dig knot tightened! BomeoM. reto« »ore humane than his fellows, relieved be* ot tW tope, on which she Ml to the her head agaiast the eto f Finally it entered the heed of the chief policeman to send the mad *°™“. * and after an hoar’s daisy, there arrived one of the wooden boxes need to transport the corpses. It was, of course, destitute of eU thatwas Decenary to transport B bring, sad above ell. e wounded person. Into this box or eofflu tbs unhappy lunatis was dragged bv the heir, the cover eras placed over bet, end she was carried off ; while for some time was beard dull tirade as her limbe, trolling in delirium, ■ track the side* of the wooden box. The unhappy woman had become insane 'because her husband, e ma-on, fall from e scaffolding and was killed on the spot.