Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — A HORRIBLE PUNISHMENT. [ARTICLE]

A HORRIBLE PUNISHMENT.

A Chilian Criminal Shot and Tied In a Bar with Bata and Snakes. The terrible punishments inflicted on criminals In Chili are now fortunately dons away with. How terrible these Densities were the following story, told by a correspondent from Concepcion, will show: Less than forty years ago a beautiful girl, whose parents were among the wealthiest citizens of Concepcion, married the son of another equally prominent family, and the pair settled down to housekeeping with flattering prospects of future happiness. For several months their course of true love ran smoothly enough, and then the demon jealousy took possession of the young wife whether on reasonable Sounds or not Ido not know. Among ese passionate, high-strung, irresponsible people the “green-eyed monster” plays a more desperate part than coldblooded Northerners can well understand, and the prisons are filled with his viotlms. The senora in question, mad with jealous rage, crept out of bed one night, heated a kettle of lard to the boiling point and deliberately poured it over the head of her sleeping husband. Of course he died, after a few hours of torture; and so did she, in a no less shooking manner. Though her father offered the whole of his wealth to save her life and the mother begged the Governor on her knees to inflict some less horrible punishment, the poor demented girl was dragged io “the hill of death,” or place of public executions, and shot; ana then her yet warm body was tied up In a sack, together with living rats and snakes, and sunk in the middle of the river.