Jerome Gambit: Morphy vs the Mefistopheles

Yury V. Bukayev has provided several links to what may well be the earliest* Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) related fiction.

The Spanish language newspaper, La correspondencia de Puerto Rico, published on a daily basis, from February 20, 1906 to March 18, 1906, successive chessboard positions from a game it identified as "Mefistofeles vs Morphi". (This allowed readers to follow the progress of the game without needing to know chess notation.)

Of course Paul Morphy's opponent played the Jerome Gambit-like Polerio Gambit aka the Abrahams Jerome Gambit aka the Polerio Knightless Jerome Gambit.

Here is the game, with diagrams.

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Bxf7+

3...Kxf7 4.Qh5+ Kf8 5.Qxe5 d6 6.Qf4+ Nf6 7.Nf3 Nc6

The position looks very Jerome Gambit-ish, although the White Queen is oddly out of place.

8.c3 Ne5 9.Nxe5 dxe5 10.Qxe5 Bxf2+ 

Here apparently White resigned, facing 11.Kxf2 Ng4+, forking the King and Queen.

After a day without the "Ajedrez" column, the newspaper returned to more ordinary topics and started presenting the game between Emanuel Lasker and Leon Paredes...

*-Did you miss "The Verdun Gambit", another piece of fiction from 1917? You can check it out here (Part 1) and here (Part 2)