The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-04-19
Whipped to Death by Order Of His
Master and Mistress.

In q slaye-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 q resident of
Souza on December 4:
"On the 26th ult. (November) DIR.
Francis Jose de Souza, residing on the
Bivramento plantation, went to the
house of DIR. Martz, the jttiz 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
indisposition. He worked as usual,
however, but ON the 25th, being locked
up in his sleeping-room chained and
manacled, because he was q runaway,
he drank 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
10 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 juiz municipal and the corpse
exposed In presence of over hundred
persons, it was stripped. The body
presented q 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 and hands; with
large black bruises on the right side and
ribs, deep wounds in various parts of
the body, and great water blsters. This
was the anterior appearance. Turning
that the whole region between the pos
terror and the shoulder-blades was one
single deep sore, with burrows and cavi-
ties more or less deep.
The people hurled reproaches upon
DIR. 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 jiIiz
municipal ordered the corpse to be
opened, an operation which, through q
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
lye in the mouth of the corpsei 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 ON insufferable
| odor arising from clots of blood in vari-
Gus parts. The slaves, nine in number,
were covered with scars produced by
the lash, hot water, hot caIdo 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.
"The dclegdio 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 a
greater one on the oath, 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 oi
all these perversities.-Rio Jdneiro
(BraziD Neacs.
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