The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-23
A BRAZILIAN SLAVES
FATE.
Whipped to Death by Order o.
His Master and Mistress.

10 a slave-holding country the
right of Furnishing slave ia one OF
the unWritten laws. 1t is only when
some exceptional case of cruelty be.
comes known that the popular indig-
nation is reused and efforts are
seemingly made to throw the pro-
lection of the law around o helpless,
prosecuted class. One Of these In
stances Of brutality recently occurred
in the Province of Parshyba, and is
related by proyinciae Journal as fol-
lows, the story being told by resi-.
dent OF Souzs on December 4th:
"On the 18th ult. (NovemberJ DR..
Frapcis Jose de Sonzs, residing on
the Livramento plantation, went to
the house of DR.. Msriz. the juiz de
direito, and declared that having or
dered some 500 lashes to be given on
the Oath to bis slave, named Miguel,
so years of age, the slave felt some
slight indisposition. He worked as
usual, However, on the 25tb, being
locked up in his s.eeping-room,
chained and manscIed, because he
was runaway, be drank great
qua tity of lye, which he mad filtered
10 the same room, and N the 26th
at O'Clock in the morning, he
died. The police OF this distric. be-
ing little skilled in examination aud
being uneble to compromise him, he
come to eek these iuuc.ionaries TO
proceed to the examination. The
judges al 10 o'clock on toe following
morning arrived there, finding the
population In excitement. Experts
Oeing nominated by the juiz mu-
nicipal and the corpse exposed IN
the presence of ever hundred per-
sons, it was stripped. The body pre-
sented a most horrible aspect. Some
what swollen, the skin ~ss literally
burned. and separated from the body
at the teucn, with the exception Of
the face, head, feet and bauds; with
large black bruises on the right side
sud ribs. deep wounds in Ysrioue
parts of the body, and great water
bnsIers. This vas the anterior ap-
pesrance. Turning the corpse, it
was seen With anguish that the whole
region between the b.ttocks end the
snor lder-blades was one single deep
sore, with burrows and cavities D1Ure
or less deep. The people hurled re
proaches on DR. SoUza, who seemed
the image of CONSERVATION, asking
that the corpse should be opened for
verifying the internal injury done by
the lye which Miguel had drank.
The people cried that that was not
necessary, and that the lashes and
baths OF boiling water were the cause
of his death. The juiz municipal or.
dered the corpse to be opened. an
Operation which, through lack OF
professionals, was done With more or
ess regularity. The stomach was
intact and also the throat; Only the
posterior part of the liver, part OF the
Irugs and kidneys were as though
bruised; the tongue was intact from
the middle 80 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 slI the tissues were black
and sufused. There had been a
great Internal hemoSrhsge.
"Dslegado Felinto Jose Furtado
se irched for and examined every
thing suspected in q case of punish
ment. There were found various
iron cianacles. chains, whips, letters,
and y instrument consisting OF sn
iron ring with a tongue on whose ex-
tremity vas g large bell, which is
used for putting on the necks OF
runaway slaves. The room II which
Miguel died was worse than the duL-
gecn of Taco, the difference being
the greater from its being inhabited
By two and having two baskets Of
asre s, two satche!s also full of ashes,
eourds. end other similar things; it
exhale an insdfsraole odoF arising
from elots OF blood IN various parts.
The slaves, nine ia number, were
covered with seas produced by the
lash, not water, ho. cslio, and irons.
The slave woman Lucia wore iron
shsckles, manscles and the bell II
strument; her body was covered With
innumerable scars, old and fresh.
"The delegsdo sought TO lnterro
gate two slaves, but, seeing that