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Show INSANE JEALOUSY. A dispatch to an eastern paper tells of a triple murder and suicide by a Cuban who resided in Chilhuahua, Texas Tlio cause of the insane act was jealousy. Among the ictims was a priest who ' refused to break the sacred seal of the confession. Neither threats nor moral persuasion could move the father to answer the questions of the maniac, who murdered him because of his refusal to do so. Whilst the deed is greatly to be deplored, it . adds to the glory of the Catholic priesthood, who are ever ready to meet death rather than break or re- J veal the, sacred and inviolable seal of the confessional. con-fessional. The dispatch reads: "Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 2S. -News has been received from Chihuahua to the effect that Manuel Man-uel Torres, a Cuban, murdered his wife, her supposed sup-posed paramour and the priest of a small town near Parral and killed himself. "Torres came to Parral from Cuba four years ago and married a woman said to have been unusually un-usually handsome. Mrs. Torres went to church daily, and her husband became jealous, believing she went there to see her eousin, Antonio Morales. One day last week Torres called upon his wife'.? confessor and urged him to tell what he knew about the conduct of his wife. The' priest, M-mxul Moreno, refused. A few hours later Torres invited Morales to take a walk. When they reached .lie outskirts of the city Torres is said to hava killed his cousin-in-law with a knife. "Torres then went to the house of the priest and requested him to come to someone who Avas dying. When the two reached the place where Morales had been murdered Torres again asked him to say what ho knew of his wife. The priest again refused re-fused and Torres plunged a knife into his breast. Tho priest died almost immediately. Torres then blew out his brains with a revolver. "The -body .of .Mrs. Torres was found hanging from the roof of a room of the house whew the couplo lived." |