St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1879-01-18
A Tale of Horror.

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1t may as we'll be promised that the hero
of the ghastly drama has evaded arrest,
though efforts have been made by the
Bolivian authorities to secure him.
Between two spurs of the Bolivian
Andes, where they descend until they
melt into the vast plains in which rise
the great South American cities Sucre |
and L. Paz, is lovely valley. known
as the Vale del Cascarilla-so called from
the ancient quinine forests, whose whit
stems, stripped of their medical bark, still
fill the gorgelike space with the skele-
tons of dead wilderness. The valley
has long since been abandoned by the
ouinine hunters, who have pushed their
explorations far down into The basins of
the BENZ Modera and other tributaries of
the Amszon. For ten years and more
its only inhabitants were Giro Chico, or
Little Cyrus, with his half-breed wife and
his more than half savage Indian depen-
dents.
GIRO CHICO WAS CONDOR HUNTER,
A profitable calling as profit in that
primitive section goes. In country
whose chief wealth is it's heards, which
are in constant peril from the swooping
onslaughts of the terocious Andean birds
of prey, the condor hunter meets a warm
| welcome every, where, and save during
the period of the snow-blasts and bitter
winter sleets, his home sees little of him
That of Giro Chico was no exception
to the rule. Eight months out of the
twelve found him absent for long inter-
walls. His vile, handsome woman of
the Huaucavelico district, where her sex
are as famous for infdelity as beauty,
was mistress in his absence. His brother
Andreas attended to the little farm, on
which the family depended for what
food the gun could not procure in the
blasted forests. A number Of poems made
up the rest of the isolated settlement
and their mistress was reputed to be ty
means chary in the distribution of her
amorous favors among them.
However this may have been, it is Ger
tain that the long months spent in his
sister-in>law's solitary society proved too
much for Address virtue. Driven down
from the mountains couple of We eks
earlier than usual by the increasing
severity of the weather, Giro Chico found
the pair last year in the full
ENJOYMENT OF A GUILTY LOVE.
The condor hunter was a little man, q
dwarf, but with the strength of Quasi
modo and the ferocity, once his passions
were awakened, of famished tiger
His first act was to brain his brother with
the blow of fist which hardship hac
transformed into malIet The woman
, fed. Without paying any further at
tention to her, Giro Chico supplied he
place with pretty Indian girl who hac
i been one of the drudges of the ranch anc
fed the corpse of his traitor brother Il
the savage dogs.
The faithless wife had fed to the plain
u of La Paz, where her brother was estab
> lished as owner of one of the posting
D houses used by the mule caravans whic]
z make yearly journeys from the Bolivian
Capital across the mountains to africa o.
the Pacific.
Il This brother, q brutal half. bree,
u named Antonio Carno, had lived as al
Il people of any means in that country live
u in species OF savage state, surrounde
9 by small army of half-wild dependent
IL whose only law was their patrons wor
. It7equired little urging on his sister
u part to prevail on him to avenge her O
> her husband, whom she now hated 8
Z people only hate those whom they hav
u wronged, especially as there was know
q to be
- RICH BOOTY IN GIRO CHICo's RANCHI
% One night a ferocious band stole like
g." train of phantoms through the dea
u quinine woods, and the condor hunte
u woke to find his home in flames Fl
- fought his way through his enemies anc
covered with wounds, succeeded in oscar
n ing unseen into the branches of one {
IS the towering trees. Thence he sa,
s. Carno and his followers, maddened b
d failure to discover the arms and good
II they had hoped to find, massacre tn
Of wretched poems of the former, maj
ID woman and child, or nurl them Twin
t. into the fire.
't Most active of all in this bloody wor
Is was his wife, who had accompanied th
l. party dressed in male attire. More tina
1t one victim persisted by her hand.
IS last the fugitive saw her drag a woma
K from one of the out~buildings where th
u poor creature had concealed herself. Ths
q woman was her successor to her hui
70 bands bed, the pretty Indian. y
i While her brothers followers held til
Il miserable victim, the half breed with hi
q own hands gouged out her eyes, tore he
g tongue from her mouth, and, fnall,
y after cutting off her nose, ears al
Q breasts, carried her to be roasted to deaf
over slow fire. It was with the shrek
9 other torture ringing in his ears, mingle
u with the demoniac exultation of her tol
mentors, that 49, ....:
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