Huntsville gazette., 1882-04-08
Whipped to Death by Order Of His
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In a slave-holding country the right
| OF Furnishing slave is one of the un-
| written laws. 1t is only when some ex-
ceptional case Of cruelty becomes known
that the popular Indignation is reused
and efforts are seemingly made to throw
the protection of the law around help
less, prosecuted class. One of these in
stances of brutality recently occurred in
the province of Parahyba, and is re-
lated by provincial journal as follows,
the story being told by resident of
i SOuza on December a. at s as.4
son the 26th uls. (November) DIR.
Francis Jose de Souza, residing on the
Livramento plantation, went to the
house Of DR.. Martz, the juiz de direito,
and declared that, having ordered some
two hundred lashes to be given on the
oath to his slave, named Miguel, fifty
years of age, the. slave felt some slight
indlsposition. He worked as usual,
however, but on the 25th, being locked
up in his sleeping-room chained and
manacled, because he was a runaway,
he drank q great quantity Of lye, which
he had filtered in the same room, and
on the 26th, at eight in the morning, he
died. The police of his district being
little skilled in examination and being
able to compromise him, he had come
TO ask those functionaries to proceed to
the examination. The judges at ten
o'clock on the following morning ar
rived there, finding the population in
excitement. Experts being nominated
by the .jasis, municipal and the corpse
exposed in presence OF over hundred
| persons, it was stripped. The body
| presented a most horrible aspect. Some
what swollen, the skin was literally
| burned, and separated from the body at
| the slightest touch, with the exception
of the face, head, feet aud hands; with
large black bruises on the right side and
ribs, deep wounds in various parts Of
| the body, and great water blisters. This
was the anterior appearance. Turning
| the corpse, it was seen with anguish
that the whole region between the pos
terror aud the shoulder blades was one
single deep sore, with burrows and cavi-
ties more or less deep.
'The people hurled reproaches upon
/ DR.. Souza, who seemed the image of
CONSERVATION, asking that the corpse
should be opened for verifying the in
ternal injury done by the lye which
Miguel had drunk. The people cried
that that was not necessary, and that
the lashes and baths of boiling water
were the cause of his death. The juis
anunicipaI ordered the corpse to be
| opened, an operation which, through a
! lack of professionals, was done with
more or less regularity. The stomach
was intact and also the throat; only the
posterior part of the liver, part of the
| lungs and kidneys were as though
bruised; the tongue was intact from the
middle to the root, but burned at the
tip, which indicated an attempt to put
I've in the mouth of the corpse! In the
parts corresponding to the sides all the
tissues were black and suffused. There
had been great internal hemorrhage.
Delegado Felinto Jose Furtado
searched for and examined everything
suspected in q case of punishment.
There were found various iron manacles,
chains, whips, fetters and an instrument
consisting Of an iron ring with tongue
on whose extremity was a large bell,
which is used for putting on the necks
Of runaway slaves. The room in which
Miguel died was worse than the dungeon
Of Taco, the difference being the greater
from its being inhabited by two and
having two baskets of ashes, two sachels
also full of ashes, gourds and other sim
liar things; it exhaled an insufferable
odor arising from clots of blood in yari-
Gus parts. The slaves, nine in number,
were covered with scars produced by
the lash, hot water, hot caldo and irons!
The slave woman Lucia wore iron
shackles, manacles and the bell instru-
ment; her body was covered with in
Vulnerable scars, old and fresh.
s.The delegate sought to interrogate
two slaves, but, seeing that they were
frightened there, he decided to bring
them all to this city. Miguel, beside the
whipping Of the 22d, to which he would
inevitably have succumbed. suffered
greater one on the 24th, applied by his
master and, after his becoming wearied,
BY another slave. To his wounds there
were applied salt, onions and tobacco.
The most horrible Of all is that the wife
Of DIR. Souza IS the principal author OF
all these perversities. Rio Jdnetro
(BrasiD Neacs., s4 a HsAw9 .a