The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-07
biography Of Terrible scoundrei-
The Tiger Of A!ica.

a letter from Mexico to the New Orlean
Crescent says:
=, Manuel Lozada was born in the town n
Iepic, and early gave evidence of the de-
Piavlty which has since made him a terror
ms irst act Of barbarity, after being expelled
from his native town for his manifold vii.
ianles, was to organize a party of bandits
and at the head OF them he one dav can.
tured the Governor of the town. Convevipp
MN 70 an out-of-the-way house. he ordered
nj MN to be thrown down end bound securely
Then taking knife, he scarified the Gov.
ernor's feet until the soles were penetrated
IN dozen places to the bone. In this copdi.
tion he was forced to dance before Lozada
and when he tagged, his tormentor would
urge him on by pricking him with sharp
sword. Then he hung him up by the feet
until he was dead, after which the body was
hewn to pieces and thrown to the dogs.
Riding away from the scene of his cruelty,
he called at the house of widow woman
and, because she shut the door when he
brandished his bloody sword, he burst into
the house and run her through the BODY.
His next act of ferocty was committed at
the farm called "Magaras," ;" when he burned
down the houses, killed eleven persons, and
violated three girls, one of them the daughter
ofthe overseer. This last named person was
called out and made to deliver all the valua-
bles about the place, which he was told TO
carry to the edge of the wood. This done
Lozada actually had the poor fellow seized,
and then scarified his feet SO that he could
not walk. The ranch belonged to the brother
of Don Carlos Rivas, who is now Lozada,s
military chief. His band, augmented to
eighty men, attacked the village of Santi-
ago, which contained three thousand inhab-
itants; when he surprised the town the peo-
pie fed, with the exception of few mon
who made stand in a strongly built house,
and who at last succeeded in driving all the
robbers out -
The whole district of Topic became
alarmed, and the terror was not decreased
when few days altar he attacked the village
OF Rosa Morads, on the borders of the State of
Jalisco, when be burned all the houses, and
did not cease to destroy the people until all
had fed to the mountains. Gen. Blanco was
at that time Governor of Sinaloa, but he made
no movement to arrest the bandits. San Bias
was twice visited by the robber, and the in.
habitants only saved themselves by fight to
the shipping in the harbor. Atlast the public
appeal for safety reached Guadalsjara, and
column of three hundred men was sent to nut
amend to the confusion and robbery. Colonel
Lleras, its commander, attacked the mountain
stronghold of Lozada, and counted himself
victorious because he took eleven o the robbers
prisoners. Lozada fed, but Immediately after
he recruited bis force up to one hundred and
fifty men, and threatened Topic with its twelve
thousand souls.
The alarm spread in every direction. All
classes took up arms, and force of two thous
and men took the field. They had no flag, for
at that time the Republic was struggling
between the Church and the Liberals, and
Comonfort had just run away. Jalisco pro.
nounced in favor Of Juarez; and Topic, in its
extremity of danger from the thieves, unfurled
the Liberal banner Lozada, almost caught in
the tolls, retreated, Joined the Conservatives,
hung out the flag Of the Church, and thus be.
came soldier Of the nation He is known as
"The Tiger of Alica," and his reputation has
not improved since he naturalized himself. He
is now chief of police in the capital, under
the command of General Lagarde