This is one of those incredible stories that many would dare to consider as a story woven by legend and not by reality.Now, what happened in Honey Grove, Texas, at the end of 19th century, it has that incredible coincidence that sometimes destiny has been saved for very specific people.
What happened to a Texan businessman named Henry Ziegland appears in the book «Casualties, coincidences and serendipias of history » of the Nowtilus publishing house, where amazing facts are collected and documented that life is good to play from time to time, leaving us truly unusual acts.
Today we invite you to discover the story of the bullet that I ended up finding his revenge.
An abandoned young woman, two suicides and a bullet
It may seem like a title of a dramatic novel, but when you discover the end you will think that the tragedy itself ended up also intermingling the science to fiction .Let's start from the beginning, and for that, we have to place ourselves.
Texas, year 1893. The businessman and logger Henry Zieglan courts day and night to a young woman until she falls into his arms.He promises her marriage, promises her eternal happiness and a life to build as a couple.False castles in the air that come down when he gets what he wants from the girl, then gets bored, and leave her.

The girl, ashamed and seeing herself as the focus of all the criticisms and talk of Honey Grove, ends up committing suicide. A tragedy that her brother can't forget and that he wishes to avenge.I have no doubt in following Mr.Henry Zieglan to the forest, and there, seeing him and face to face, he proceeds to aim his revolver and pull the trigger.
The bullet goes straight to the skull of the Mr.Zieglan, but in the end he manages to react and the bullet only rubs his face, then embedding himself in the tree's bark. The boy, after the shot, throws the gun and runs off without checking if Zieglan lives or dies, without seeing if he has fulfilled his revenge.However, having in his mind the memory of the shot and the blood pouring from his victim's face, he thinks that he has killed him, and terrified by the trial, and the subsequent punishment of the law , decides to commit suicide. Taking his life just like his little sister did.

A whole tragedy, no doubt, an unfortunate fact that left the wood entrepreneur Henry Zieglan unpunished, who after that day, he could breathe easy without more weight on his back, nor any burden on his mind.And so, days, months went by...time he ran in his favor without asking for any explanation for 20 long years.
Now, but waiting for him, he was still waiting for a bullet that was still hungry for revenge, waiting for the moment in to serve the purpose for which it had come out of a stir...

Tells the story and the people of Honey Grave that business returned Zieglan to the town 20 years later. cut down a surrounding forest and keep the wood.By chance, fate or maybe Devil himself put this man face to face with the same tree where a young man tried to kill him 20 years ago.
His purpose was to throw it to the ground, but no matter what the workers had tried, it was not possible for them.So, Mr.Henry Ziegland opted to dynamit the base of the tree ol. I prepare everything and operate the device.In a way, causing the collapse of that being was also a way to free forever from an annoying memory.

What Henry Ziegland didn't know is that the destiny wove the most subtle and cruel of coincidences, because when the trunk exploded of the tree, in the middle of those splinters there was also a bullet that bore his name, and so it was.head, caused by a bullet that had been waiting for revenge for 20 years...
Incredible, don't you think? And remember, if you liked this story, you also know the curious and sad kidnapping of Mary Mcelroy
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