New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-08-03
Mexican BarlaritY.

| At Gan D!oGO bOilu LIDS tLC lUlAo
account of the barbarity OF the Mexican
| brigands under tie rebel chief Lozada:
The Pacific Mail Southern Coast steamer
| California put into San Diego recently to
coal. Little dreamed those vino 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 a stretcher in tla Storage lay girl
| who certainly was not twelve years Old.
AZ the experience IS with southern
| females. she was far advanced 20 woman.
| hood. and the lines Of ner form indicated a
| sen.uous and beautiful physical develop.
ment It is well to dwell upon such
engaging characteristics as the poor
creature retained, Tor the ruin which had
been wrought upon her is almost
TOO fearful TO detail, and the story OF tia
acrocity is such as could hardly be par
alleled elsewhere on earth IN this nineteenth
century. Lola must have been a beautiful
girl. tor her form detained grace and SYM
metry that nature must certainly have car
r!ed to completion IN hec face. The child
woman was a ruin. A tirebrand had been
held to her nose. burning It almost COM
pletely off. The blistered flesh was still
angry aud inhamei, giving an ildescrlbab!y
loathsoue aud pitiable aspect to the poor
creature. Her cheek. were one mass of
charVed flesh, PUPPY and erubescent with the
recent passage OF a tcebrant. Her eyebrows
and lashes were burned Oft, and her eyebalis
were scared by the blasting flames. Liberal
as is the endow OF the Mexican women
with wavv masses of black hair. Eot
a capillary was let: on LoIas head. One i.
obliged to recur 70 some of the terrible pic
lures of DantO or Spenc er to get an idea o.
the fearful and yet appalling deformi.y of
this poor girl. The auta de fs was a merci-
less thing in the old days. but that was car
riea to decent end, and left merely mass
of calcined rubbish. Here the destruction
was as complete, but the victim was allowed
to live to be an objec: of horror, instead
of a thing Of beauty and joy forever.
as nature intended her to be. The story
of Lola and her mother ia incredible. They
were taken on by the California at Mazat-
Ian. on the fourth of July. They had
been living at the village of Copala. about
fifty miles from Mazatlan. A word as to the
mother may not be amiss. She isquite re-
markable for her personal charms. She ha.
noble features, clear olive skin, and
splendid masses of blue black hair. They
lived on the outskirts of Copala. On the
thirteenth of June, Antonio Murillo. one of
the lieutenants or under chiefs of the ruff.
fan Lozada, with a small force. came into
the neighborhood CO Copala. The Arroa |
house was detached. The husband. wife,
seized upon the mother, doubtless attracted |
by her personal charms, and the child Lola. |
The husband Offering resistance, he was |
shot down and the house fired. Hurryiny |
swiftly away from the scene OF blood, |
mother and daughter were swep: with the |
brigands, who wera on horseback, toward |
the mountains. The tragedy was enacted |
about four o'clock IL the afternoon. The |
brigands had been riding all day: and. az |
a = a <]ta mntbQr con Nd u,7a |
twenty miles from Copaia. they camped |
for the night. They We're too tired to |
think of aught but sleep that night; and,
after dispatching hastily prepared meal.
and 4uatiing literally of mescal. they lay
down to sleep. binding the mother to one of
the brutes and the child to the other. The
mother watched her chance, and when the |
ruttans were in the deep sleep of fatigue.
she succeeded in slipping the withes which
bound her, and making her escape. ar
rived the next day at Copala with bleed
ing feet. She did not release Lola because
she was afraid OF aroUsing the rutfians, and
did not think the child could make the
journey. even i. they should both sue
coed in escaping. She thought. be-
sides, that Lola's tender Years would
protect her from abuse. The briganis
on awaking next morning and finding the
mother gone, vented their fury in blows
upon poor Lola. They pursued their jour
ney to the mountains. and from thence sent
in a demand for a ransom for Lola. They
made i: SO large that it was beyond the
mothers ability to pay it. A government
force was sent il pursuit. One week from
the day OF capture. on the twentieth Of
June. the ruitians not receiving the ransom
demanded. took fire brand and scared the
child as we have described. The objec: TN.
was to put her 20 "a lingering
death by the most flemish fortunes. pro-
tracted from day to day. The government
forces came upon Murilo and his band in
the night time, routed them and rescued
the manned and ruined Lola. Mother and
child left country OF such atrocities in
horror. and are now on their way to San
francisco on the California.