Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — An Expensive Revenge. [ARTICLE]

An Expensive Revenge.

It aeems that hatred, as well as love, can sometimes overcome the instinct of self-preservation. A year ago Squire Palm, of Gumbinnen, in Eastern Prussia, was drowned during a boat excursion, and a young man who had tried in vain to save him soon after married his widow. But the lady’s second marriage now threatens to end more tragically than the first. There were family squalls and family storms, culminating in mutual criminations, in which the vixen tongue of the woman must have aggravated her opponent to an unbearable degree, for a month ago he purchased the sweets of revenge by the remarkable confession that Palm’s wife had aided him in fuddling and drowning her first husband. Palm’s successor knows the probable result of his confession, but declares that he can not forgive his wife, and prefers to go under for the pleasure of dragging her along.— Prof. Oswald.