Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1878 — A Spirited Wedding Scene. [ARTICLE]

A Spirited Wedding Scene.

A wedding at Constantina, Algeria, recently, was enlivened by the following incident: “ A man named Petral was recently married to a young woman of Alsatian origin. Just when the marriage party were sitting down at table, the bride left the room for a moment, and, meeting one of the guests, shook hands with him. Petral, seeing this, and actuated by an inexplicable feeling of jealousy, rushed upon the guest, and struck him a heavy blow with a stick on the head. The young woman, terribly frightened, sought refuge in an adjoining room, whither she was followed by her husband in a state of fury, who there stabbed her with a knife in the breast no less than six times, and then, availing himself of the general terror of all the persons who had witnessed the horrible scene, ran down into the stables below and blew out his brains with a pistol.”