The Placer herald., 1873-08-16
A STRANGE STORY.

i"o dCitiC MAIL SOUTHERN COaSI stediIeT
California put into San Diego yesterday,
about IL o'clock A. NJ. TO coal. Little dream
ed those who went down to the wharf of the
Pacific Mail Company of the terrible story
which was told Of a mere child of IL years,
who was on board, named Lola Arroa.
On a stretcher in the steerage, lay girl
who certainly was not IL years Of age. A.
the experience is with southern females, she
was far advanced to womanhood, aud th
lines OF her fOr,n Indicated set,kaous md
beautiful physical development. 1t is wei,
to dwell on such engaging characteristics n.
The poor creature retained, for the uin which
had been wrought upon her is almost too
fearful TO detail, and the story OF the airocity
is such as could hardly be paraeled else
where on earth in this ninetetiis!, century
Lola must have been beautiful girl, for her
form retained garce and symmetry that Ma
ture must certainly carried to completion i'll
her face.
This child-woman is charred ruin. A
fire. brand has been held to her nose, burning
it almost completely off. The blistered flesh
was sill angry and inAamed, giving an inde-
scribably loathsome and pitiatle aspect to
the poor creature. Her cheeks were one
mass of charred flesh, ,pulpy and erubescent 10y
The recent passage of fire brsnd. Her eye
hrows and ashes were burned off, and he,
eyeballs were scared hy tie blasting flames
Liberal as is the endowment of the Mexican
women with wavy masses of black hair, not
capillary was left ubon Lola's head. One
IS obliged TO rccur to some Of the terrible pic.
lures of Dante or Spencer to get an idea Of
'he fearful land yet appalling deformty of
tbs poor girl. The Auto de Fe was merci-
less thing in the old days, hut that was ear.
ri'd to IA decent end, and left merely mass
of cacned rubbish. Here the destruction
was complete, but the victim vas allowed to
live to be an object of horror during life
time, instead Of thing Of leruiy and a joy
forever, az nature intended her TO he.
The story of Loo and her mother is il =
credible. They were taken on by the Cal
itolnia at Mazatlan on the 4,h 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 IL
quite remarkable for her personal charms.
She has noble features clear skin and splen-
did blue black hair.
They lived on the outskirts of 'Copala.
On the 15h OF June, Anlon,o Murillo, one
Of the lieutenanis or ,ihdcrrlfcfs' of The ruff
an, Lozada, with a small force, came into
The neishbortood of Copaa. The Arroa
house WAS detached. The. husband, wife
and Lola were it's sole inmates. They seiz-
ed upon the mother, doubles attracted by
her personal eharn,s, ard the child Lola
The husband offering resistance, lie was shot
down and the house fired.
Hulryibg swiftly from the scene of blood
mother and daughter were SWEET with the
Irgands, who were Oh horseback, toward
the mountains. The tragedy was enacted
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The brig
ands had been riding all day, and after 60
ing, ms near as the mother could guess, about
tweny miles from Copala, they camped for
Ihe night. They were too tired to think of
aught but sleep that night; and after dis
patching hastily prepared meal, and quaf
ing literally of meacaI, they lay down to
sleep, binding the mother to one of the brutes
and the child to nnoilter. Tile mother watch
ID her chance, and when the fufiians were in
he deep sleep of fatigue, she succeeded in
slipping The wthes which bound her, and
making her escare, arriving next day at CO.
pala with bleeding feet.
She did not release Lola because she was
afraid of arousing the ruffians, and did not
ihnk the child could make tie journey, even
4 they should B5tl' succeed in escaping.
She thought, besides, that LoIa's ,ende,
years would protect her from allure.
The lriganls, On awakening next morn
ng, and finding the mother gore, vented
heir fury in blows OH poor Loa. They pur-
-ued their journey to the mountains, and
from thence sent in demand for ransom
ior Lola. They made 1t so large that it war
beyond the moher's ability TO pay it, A
Government force was cent in pursuit. One
eek fiom tue day Of capture, on the 2Oih
of June, the rufians not receiving the rail-
som demanded, took brand and scared
The child as we have described. The object
undoubtedly was to put her 10 lingering
death by the most fiendish tortures, protrac-
ted from day 10 day. The Government for
ces came upon Murillo and his band in the
nighttime, routed them and rescued the
manned and ruined Lola.
Mother and child left country of such
atrocities and horror, and are now on their
way to San Francisco on the California
San Diego World. July II.
A PUzzLED JURY-ln one Of the towns