Article Nº 0635 Writer, journalist or scholar Vol. I · p. 347
Cabedo (João Octávio da Costa)
Original title: Cabedo (João Octavio da Costa)
Funchal-born journalist and administrator of the Moita municipality, fatally attacked with an axe during a strike in January 1912.
He was a native of Funchal and contributed to Direito, a former Funchal newspaper, to Povo de Aveiro and to Intransigente, eventually joining the editorial staff of the last of these. He left it on being appointed municipal administrator (administrador do concelho, the government's representative) of the municipality (concelho) of Moita. Savagely attacked with an axe on 12 January 1912, during a strike that had broken out in that town, he died in St Joseph's Hospital (Hospital de São José), in Lisbon, on the 4th of the following month, aged only 26.
People mentioned
- João Octávio da Costa Cabedo 1885–1912
Places mentioned