Santiago Lázaro Vicente, 30 years old, was a neighbor of the municipality of El Toro, in Castellón, and lived at the masia El Molinar. A few days before the events, he had sold his livestock for ten thousand reales, equivalent to two thousand five hundred pesetas.
Vicente told his wife he intended to use that money to buy more livestock in the nearby towns. The woman approved the plan, but advised him to make the payments for the animals at the masia's residence, thus avoiding the risks of traveling with that amount of money.
The article mentions "the murderous companion" and "the bitter taste of water," suggesting that the wife may have poisoned her husband, although the details of the crime itself are not developed in this excerpt.
This story is part of a series about forgotten crimes in Castellón, apparently being a historical case from the 19th or early 20th century, given the use of the currency in reales and pesetas.
