The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-02
ASANSgENANG A UUAEAW,

The Carlist chiettain, Jergon, has
been tried before Col. Sanchez, at Pa,npe-
luna, and is to be led out to execution.
This man was lieutenant of the Carllst
bard commanded by the now famous Rosa
Samaneigo, and his name, like that OF his.
captain, and of Lozano, executed two years
since. and the famous Terron, whose death
by the Civil Guards rife on his march to
prison | cron cled in your columns last
Spring, has long been by-word to strike
terror into the hearts Of the peaceable In
habitants of Ecala,. Estella, and Mur1eta'
The murders proved against him numbered
twenty OF twenty-five, but the number OF
which he was guilty may be placed at
double that number.
Jergon's career of crime commenced IN
January, 1878, with an improved crlme'
In April of the same year, on the 10th day,
he stabbed for lust of blood, lame Old
man named Pedro Muneta, in the neighbor-
hood of Murieta. The old man was
harmless cripple.
Every crime now detail was proved in
the course of the trial. On that same day
HIS hands reeking with blood, he met
man called Juan Urra, and Killed him at
once, throwing him over preclpice. on
Easter day of the same year, 1873, he beat
to Jelly poor tanner of Estela, and hung
him half dead, over the preclpice OF lguz-
ouiza. On the 23d Of June, in the same
year. he beat to death little boy by name
Felix Chavarri, and threw his body over
the precipice OF Ecala. In the same Sum-
mer he killed, and threw over the precipice
of Ecala, another boy, day laborer called
Garim. Needless to say he always robbed
and despoiled his victims before casting
their remains, semi-conseious, over the
abysses, where was his haunt. On July
9Th, OF the same year, he beat to death
Hipolito SAM, casting his remains over
the same abyss. In fact the abysses of
IguzquiEa aad Ecala were turned by this
man into perfect cemeteries of murdered
men s bodies. On August Goth of the same
year, he captured Louis Pescado, close to
} Estella, tortured him one whole day and
shot him the next.
1t has been said by the Carlists that the
! victims of this rufians club and knife were
: "spies," and, as such, lawful game. Let
us see what follows 1t was proved in
evidence that on the same day-August 20
, he outraged two unhappy married wo-
7 men, and flung them half alive, down the
r precipice of Ecala On the next day. or
within two or three days, he robbed an old
e road-mender, aged seventy, of his all
killed him, and flung him down the steep
G of Iguzquiza Again, within few days
e he beat to death a gypsy, and flung his
e body down. In Villatuerta, in the same
: year, he got hold Of girl of gentle birth
I ravished, and then shot her, throwing her
body down the precipice. He then com.
menced the attempt to bury the victims
alive; when they struggled he bayoneted
n them. A string ofeight more proved crimes
d of murder, accompanied with every sort Of
n horrid torture, here follows; but l spare
d your readers the bloody and ghastly de.
L tails. Suffice it to say, that one of these
e victims, whom he threw alive over the pre-
r cipice was Carlist soldier named Eusebit
d Arrieta, who tried to escape from par
:, ticipation in such awful and bloody deeds
e ( Cor. London Tines.)