The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-08-07
HORRIBLE BR1GAND OUTRAGE.

coal. Little dreamed those who went
down to the wharf of the Pacific Mail
Company of the terrible story which
was told of mere child Of eleven years
who was on board, named Lola Arroa
On stretcher in the Storage lay a
girl who certainly was not twelve years
Of age. AS the experience is with
southern females, she was far advanced
to womanhood, and the lines of her
form indicated a sensuous and beautiful
| physical development. 1t is well to
dwell upon such engaging character
istics as the poor creature retained, for
the ruin which had been wrought upon
her is almost too fearful to detail, and
the story of the atrocity is such as could
hardly be paralleled elsewhere on earth
in this nineteenth century. Lola must
have been a beautiful girl, for her form
retained grace and symmetry that ma
ture must certainly have carried to COM
pletion in her face
This child-woman was charred ruin.
A fre-brand had been held to her nose,
burning it almost completely of. This
blistered flesh was still angry and in
famed, giving an indescribably loath-
some and pitiable aspect to the poor
creature. Her cheeks were one mass
Of charred flesh, pulpy and erubescent
with the recent passage of fire-brand.
Her eyebrows and lashes were burned
off, and her eyeballs were SCARED by
the blasting flames. Liberal as is the
endowment of the Mexican women with
wavy masses of black hair, not a capil-
larry was left upon Lola's head. One is
obliged to recur to some of the terrible
pictures Of Dante or Spenser to get an
idea of the fearful and yet appalling de-
formity of the poor girl The a,lto-de5e
was merciless thing in the old days,
but that was carried to a decent end,
and left merely mass of calcined rub
bish. Here the destruction was COM
plete, but the victim was allowed to
live to be an object of horror during a
instead of a thing of beauty
and joy forever, as nature intended
her to be.
The story of Lola and her mother is
Incredible. They were taken on by the
. California at Mazatlan on the 4th of
July. They had been living at the vii
age of Copala, about fifty miles from
Mazatlan A word as to the mother
may not be amiss She is quite re-
her personal charms. She
has noble features; clear olive skin,
and splendid masses of blue-black hair
They lived on the outskirts of Copa-
a. On the 18th of June, Antonio Mu-
lilo, one of the Lieutenants or under
'hiefs of the ruffian. Lozado, with a small
orce came into the neighborhood of Co
,ala- The Arroa house was detached.
The husband, wife, and Lola were its
ole inmates. They seized upon the
mother, doubtless attracted by her per.
onal charms, and the child Lola. The
husband Offering resistance, he was shot
lown and the house fired.
Hurrying swiftly from the scene of
'lood, mother and daughter were swept
With the brigands, who were on horse
ack, toward the mountains. The trag-
dy was enacted about 4 o'clock in the
fternoon. The brigands had been rid
ng all day; and, after going. as near
s the mother could guess, twenty miles I
rom Copala, they camped for the night.
hey were too tired to think of augEt
at sleep that night; and, after dis.
hastily-prepared meal, and !
uaffing literally of mescal, they lay !,
own to sleep, binding the mother to
ne OF the brutes and the child to the ).
ther. The mother watched her chance.
nd when the ruffians were in the deep !,
eep of fatigue, she succeeded in slip II
ing the withes which bound her, and d
aking her escape, arriving the next}V
~ ct Copala with bleeding feet. q
She did not release Lola because she r
as afraid of arousing the ruffians, and :
ID not think the child could make the r
urney, even if they should both sue. !.
led in escaping. She thought, besides, $
olas tender years would protect her 0
ON abuse. "
The brigands on awaking the next =,
ornlng, and finding the mother gone, =,
'nted their fury in blows upon poor :; u
0la. q - = B 49, Il b.
They pursued their journey to the Il
ountalns, and from thence sent in a b.
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