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Bloody Doings on the Rio Grande
- The Brownsville, Texas, correspondent of the New Orleans Delta, in a very interesting letter of the 12th ult., gives the following account of the mysterious death of Master St. Luke, the young violinist, who, as a musical prodigy, created such a sensation in this country a few years since. - The affair is certainly shrouded in deep mystery. From this and the details which follow, it would appear, that the two towns celebrated in the Mexican war, still continue the theatre of blood and carnage, notwithstanding the cessation of hostilities between the warring nations.
A mysterious case of assassination occurred in this city a few nights ago. Master St. Luke, the celebrated violinist, received a stab in the breast and died without being able to say who was his murderer; it has not been since found out. When last seen, he was in company with two Mexican women; it is supposed that one of them committed the act, and that she was instigated by a sense of jealousy, as he was about to start for California. A day had scarcely passed over, when another affair occured, which had well nigh ended inthe death of one of the parties. A bad feeling had for some time existed between G.M. Armstrong and E.B. Scarborough, editor of the Sentinel, in consequence of an article pubished in that paper reflecteing upon the former. They accidentally met in the garrison, when Scarborough told Armstrong that he intended to shoot him that evening. Armstron hereupon drew his 'Texas Code of Practice' - asix shooter - and discharged four of the barrels at Scarborough, every shot taking effect. - The wounds are not considered mortal, and Scarborough is doing well. Armstrong has been arrested and held to bail in the sum of $5--- for his future appearance. On the same night that St. Luke was killed in Brownsville, there were two or three men killed in Matamoras. V. Fernandes, the revelutionist was massacred a few days ago on the road from Victoria to Monterey, by a party of soldiers, whose prisoner he was. The only exuse which they offered for this cowardly and boloody act is, that they apprehended he would be rescued from them. Thee are some thirty or forty revolutionists in prison at Vitoria, many of them men of high standing.
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1826 - 1850 (24 years)