Show an old Plex mexican ican tragedy high up in a desolate canon about forty m milca ig from monterey the trav elor eler on the ferro carril as the steam cars are called sees the ruins rains of an ancient casa whose crumbling walla wall a are usually mistaken for one of th the many fortifications left in the wake wak of our general taylor but this thi I 1 ghostly place hns bits a sadder history it was the scene of a midnight tragedy the actors in which if stories be true still till prowl about the premises though their bodies have been dust more than halt a century the history in brief is ia this thia some home sixty years ago a proud proad spirited spaniard lived there who had bad inherited aalthe all the jealousy suspicion and ad bad blood of his hia race his beau wife had refused an earlier suit sait or a mexican in order to marry the spaniard whom she devotedly loved and the rejected lover determined on revenge he acted the part of lago IBRO and caused the spanish Ot hellos ear to be filled with canning tales of hi bis a own invention concerning the cifes unfaithfulness jealousy once thor hughly roused in in southern blood in knows w rio no bounds bd but death the tha infuriated furia ted husband carefully devised him hia diabolical plan Band sand when all was ready feigned business in monterey Uon terey but caused fleet horses to be station of ed I 1 every five miles along the route barini the silent watches of the night he to the casa mur dered his bia gentle wife in her bar boj bed and accomplished the entire miles before doy daylight light being found in montarey Mont prey next morning nobody sus pecked him of the crime but the fiend is ish i lago could not disguise his bis eaul tation and in the gushing confidence of too much mescal disclosed the whole plot when convinced at last beyond doubt of his bis dead desda deda morias monas innocence crazed with re more othello plunged lie hia dagger tato into iamb ia heart and then into bis own the orphaned orphan pd children were taken to monterey and cared for by th churchard chur chand today taday to ta day their descend nuts ants represent some of the moat 10 8 prominent families s in the stata state 40 of f cos bail a con lain finn 1 fai I 11 |