Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-19

there was a police garrison, and secur
ing the services of half dozen sol
diers by promising them large rewards
returned to the negro cabin and arrested
its three inmates.
CHASTITY DISCOVERY.
They loudly protested their innocen 4
of any crime, but search OF the house
resulted in the finding of the murdered
" woman's dismembered remains crammeo
in layers in a barrel slowed away III G
corner under pile OF refuse. That the
body was intended to be eaten wa.
amply proved by the fact that between
each layer of flesh thick layers of coarse
salt had been spread and species o.
picking brine had been poured over all
The brutal wretches who had commit
ted the foul murder we're arrested ano
thrown into pri on, from which they
very speedily and very easily made theii
escape-liberated, it would be called il
America. To be sure, they were beaten
by the police who arrested them, as all
persons in Hayti are beaten. And &C
cording to the Voudoo belief, the pun
ishment was extraordinarily severe for
the crime of which they we're guilty.
But, not to depend altogether upon
one authority the following narrowing
tale is given upon the word of a gentle
man formerly resident of Hayti, where
he had large business interests, and
who, until convicted by the evidence Of
his one sense, had been one of those
who refused to credit the oft.told stories
of Voudooism and its awful rites.
ANOTHER HORRIBLE TALE.
The incidents related occurred in the
vicinity Of Cape Haytien, one of the
most important cities in the republic,
and according to the narrator's solemn
cement, no longer ago that last spring.
Like the priest already mentioned,
the gentleman in question, together with
friend, had been introduced in disguise
by friendly negro to the rude wooden
Voudoo "temple," where they found q
large assemblage of the faithful gathered
about the cege containing the sacred
serpent. Upon wooden throne,
dressed in tawdry tinery, were the Papa.
loi and Mamanloi, or priest and priestess.
After slow, monotouous chant, with
which the proceedings began, frenzied
address by the priest, in which he urged
upon all implicit obedience to the will of
the serpent, and muniaeal dance fol.
lowed, after which silence was again
produced by the appearance from behind
a red curtain of two men leading by the
hands little trembling negro boy III
wi ite robes. The child was led to the
throne and mounting it he prostrated
himself twice before the man and wo.
man seated there. The Papaloi, holding
both his hands over the boys head,
blessed him in the name of the sac ed
serpent and then asked him in pompous
language what he most desired in the
world. The little fellow, glancing up
into the faces of his two conductors,
replied, and the reply had evidently
been taught him, THAT object above ali
other objects in the world which | most
desire is the possession of little virgin. !"
DOUBLE SACRIFICE.
Hardly had he spoken when from the
encurtained apartment came two women
leading negro girl of four or five years,
also dressed in the purest white. The
second child was led to the throne and
stood confronting the boy. Again the
boy was asked what he most desired and
when he repeated his former answer
both he and the girl were at once thrown
down on their backs and bound hand and
foot.
A burly negro, knife in hand, separa.
ted himself from the crowd, who had
been watching the roceedings with
breathless interest, and mounted the
throne. Reaching the boy he spoke
to the men, who, with their hands over
his mouth, were trying to stop the little
fellows cries, and they held their victim
by the feet up in the air. With single
slash across the little throat the brutal
executioner killed the child, and the
others held him while his life blood
yushed into the receptacle placed below
10 receive it.
A CANNIBAL FEAST.
"At that moment" says the narrator,
IAN involuntary exclamation of horror
me, aud Immediately all eyes
were turned towards me. looking with
distrust and suspicion. The horrible
on the throne were suspend.
I'd and hasty consultation was held
here among the people on it. Fearing
'or my life, and obeyihg a slight signal
rom my guide, l somehow got out OF the
ioor, mounted my horse AID rode as
nard as could to the town. The wor-
shippers evidently did not suspect l was
l white man. They assumed, prob lbly,
hat was novice and not yet hard.
sned to the sight. At any rate i was
not pursued and my friend was not in
serfered with. He remained until the
end. joined me that night, or rather
AMI told me that the little girl
had been killed in the same manner as
he boy and that the bodies had been
,ut up, cooked and eaten by the wretch.
es. The whole awful orgy was ended
only when every person present had be-
come helplessly intoxicated.
INCREuIB BEAsTLINEss.
Some of the incidents related in con-
nection with these horrible practices are
In, os+ incra1 bla in their I, ,ttar opd nm