Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1880 — A Man with Two Hearts. [ARTICLE]

A Man with Two Hearts.

In Spain a man of wide sympathies is generally called “ a man with two hearts.” But it by no means follows that a man with two hearts is a man of wide sympathies. A Spanish peasant living in the vicinity of Madrid in a petty quarrel killed an aged woman, andwould have murdered her daughter also had not the latter succeeded in making her escape. Thinking himself robbed of a great pleasure by the girl’s escape, he revenged himself by repeatedly stabbing the corpse of the mother. Singularly enough, remorse preyed so quickly upon his mind that he immediately hanged himself. But the rope broke, and he would, in all probability, have survived his attempt at suicide had he not broken his skull in the fall. On a post-mortem examination the man was found to have two hearts instead of one; both being of regular size and presenting no peculiarity of any kind. Melissa Ann Woodbury was ready to go riding with a young man at Winchester, Ind., and sat waiting at the window at the appointed time. But, instead of keeping his engagement, the faithless fellow rode boldly past with another girl. That night his barn, containing his horse and carriage, was burned, and Melissa is under arrest as the incendiary,