| Show seduction and ana revenge Ee three weeks ago says the bombay gazette of feb 11 the officers of the light i 1 dragoons assembled at to present a a silver tea service to sergeant I 1 major hunt who was for 13 years in the regiment e I 1 m ent in testimony of ills his zealous and faithful faitt faithful ful fui services aa as mess sergeant during a period of 11 years it may be imagined with what feelings of honest pride and gratification mr hunt received from the hand of col scudamore this tribute to his estimable qualities and exemplary 1 character for he could not have dreamed at that time that one of those very officers who offered him their good wishes for his future welfare and success would before two weeks had passed be denounced and justly punished panl pani shed by him as the ot his home and the destro destroyer er of his hig happiness unacquainted unacquainted even by reputation before the sad event occurred which has startled bombay and poona from their propriety with either mr hunt or cornet browne all that we hear from day to day of the former gentleman convinces us that the expressions of praise used by the colonel of the lath in speaking of his conduct were not misapplied and that the ex sergeant major throughout both liis his military and civil career was a worthy member or of society of cornet browne nothing is said he was wag of course in virtue of his position s iti n as an officer entitled to rank as a gentleman gent eman and this probably was the attraction which made him superior brior to her husband in the eyes of mrs hunt lunt accustomed for many years to regard the commissioned commis ione lone d officers of the regiment as belonging to a higher class than her own the wife of the chief partner in the mercantile house of hunt monnet co could not shake off the re remembrance mem brance of former days or resist the impression that the wife of one who had been a sergeant ought to feel flattered by the attentions of a cornet mr hunt it seems had intercepted a letter which proved clearly his cifes guilt ile he went to his house took a loaded pistol and proceeded to brownes bungalow at with the letter in his hand mr hunt accosted the man and asked him it if he could deny what had happened the reply of this officer who seems not even mohave to have had the manliness to attempt a defense of his victims reputation was a jeering jeering lau iau laugh h and a light conf confession assion that he had ha committed the crime of which he was accused mr hunt then called upon the cornet to give civo ivo him such satisfaction as a duel could afford for his wounded honor again the only onix n awer was a smile of mockery and derision and an intimation that it would he be beneath the dignity of this wretched seducer to fight with one who had been a private soldier on this mr hunt still keeping a marrel marfel ous calmness remarked that cor cornet net browne forgot the man he had injured was no lon lot longer loter er a sergeant major in the lath dragoons but b ut a partner in a mercantile house who wha by the th of or society was entitled to the consideration due to a gentleman the cornet again treated his questions with the supercilious insolence lie he had displayed throughout the interview and mr huntzis Hun Hunt this bis lis patience being exhausted said your blood then be upon your own head andy andi raising 1 his pistol shot him like a dog 0 |
