Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-03-08

a chair leg was found thrust through the
body of girl
Meantime the alarm had spread. The
foreigner and natives in Tandil gathered
what weapons they could find, mounted
and rode after the murderers with the
fixed determination to pursue them to the
death. By four in the evening they over
took them at Chapar, where they were
taking tea and changing horses The
murderers prepared to fight, but first sent
forward one of their numbers to parley.
The commander of the pursuers de-
clared to them il they did not surrender
no quarter would be given them. Solares
and his followers then took to flight, but
were vigorously pursued. Sixteen met
their death then and there, and five were
captured, among them Soares, and in
some hours afterwards nineteen more
were secured--the rest escaped.
In the examination which followed,
Solares declared that he was innocent of
the murders that had occurred, but the
others unanimously asserted that he COM
manded them, that he had been seducing
them for some time before to kill all for
eigners, and that he had promised them
immunity against balls by annoiEting
themselves with ointment which he dis
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were lodged in the prison, and were
guarded by the inhabitants of Tandil;
but in the night shots were fred through
holes made in the prison, and Solares fell
dead.
Various stories are told of Solares,
which attest the credulity and supersti-
tion of the gauchos. Thus he is said to
have kept at his door, night and day, u
saddled horse which received neither
food nor water yet kept always fat.
They algo tell us that an estanciero
brought to the Tata Dios a sick peon, the
peon insisting on him doing So The es-
tanciero was told to return next day, but,
before leaving the Tata Dios, he asked
him to give remedy for suppositious
disease he professed to suffer from. The
answer was to return next day, and he
would get it, but to be sure to ride his
tamest horse. The incredulous estan
ciero complied with the recommendation,
but when half way his horse threw him,
breaking his legs There he was found
by the messengers of Solares, who had
"divined" the occurrence and had sent
men to his aid On his arrival, the es-
tanciero related what had happened, when
the doctor told him that he (the Tata
Dios) had purposely punished him thus
for his incredulity and attempted trick
''but," said he, 'to show that God grants
me everything, arise, for you are cured
go home with your peon. who is also
cured, and henceforth have faith" And
both the estanciero and his peon returned
home sound.
Another time they tell that carter
passing by with others laughed at the ap-
pearance of the Doctor, but had not gone
a hundred yards before he dropped down
dead. The Tata Dios, however, told his
companions not to bury him, for next
day he would resuscitate him, having
only punished him for his mockery of
Gods envoy, and next day the carter
came to life and rejoined his comrades.
These and other miscellaneous tales
caused persons to come hundreds of miles
to consult him, and he would frequently
have two hundred consultations in day.
From them he took no money, but told
them to lay their offerings, if not less
than SO or more than fifty, in salver
placed before the Blessed Virgins image,
which was in the centre of the chapel
room, surrounded by the images of eight
or ten saints a.1a
The native journals have, in general,
poured their vials of wrath upon the
priests for the teachings which have pro-
duced the dreadful tragedy of Tandil. 1t
is, unfortunately, true that the bigotry of
the Argentine clergy is of the deepest
hue, and that in many cases they do not
spare even direct instigations against the
Protestants. And the savage Gaucho, al
ready filed with hatred for the detested
Gringo, as he contemptuously terms all
Protestants, Is but too ready to translate
the invitations of theirreligious guardians
into such frequent acts of cold-blooded
and wanton murder, rarely punished
even if capture ensues, that it is becom-
ing a question whether emigration
should not be warned from the River
Platte or whether the foreigners should
not band together for self-defense, and,
disregarding the authorities of the coun-
try, who have proved by their acts that
they share the gaucho sentiment, and are
ready to connive at the escape of gaucho
murderers of foreigners, establish Vigil
ance Committees, whose action will en-
brace the authorities themselves if found
wanting, The evil of the insecurity of
life and property is great along the River
Platte, and every day makes it more evil
dent that trenchant work must be made
with the perpetrators of the crimes and
with those who favor the criminals.