The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-26
HUMAN BRUTFS.
A Man with Mania for killing Its Chill
dren and His Aequiescest wire.


drea and HIS Aequiescest wire.
The vlllage OF Lomos de Zamora. near Ban.
field Station. 10 the United States Of Colombia.
IL the scene OF as startling a sensation ma the
annals ri crime contain. II consists In the dis
covsry OF series OF murders beginning In
1859 or 1860 and continuing to 1890, and result
ing In The death Of ten sots and daughters and
three gran !children Of the murderer.
The author OF these crimes Is Marcinno
Medina, and his vile. Paulina Benavides. and
his daughter. Remigia. have been accessories.
II not accompices. In several OF the murders.
Since 1871 Marciano Medina has lived on
ranch near Lomos do 2amora. He hns Fam
lily consisting OF a wife. six sons. and one
daughter. Remigia. He is SIS and his wife is
43 years old. Medina is employed among tho
corrals OF Lomos, and Is considered u usoful
worker among the men Of his class at elections.
The discovery OF this mans crimes was due
indirectly to tho action Of RemRia In leaving
her fathers home to elope with her lover. On
July Is Medina called upon the Police Com
missary OF Lomos dc Zamors Osvnldo Gueri.
and requested that his runaway daughter 10
apprehended. At the very moment Of this
conference police agent PeIro Miranda.
called the Commissary aside and said that he
had just como from q ranch near Lomos de
Zamora wherc. In the course OF tho comments
which had been ma lie upon tho eopoment Of
kemigia. it had heen charged that Medina
and his wife had killed number Of their
hearing this the Commissary returned to
Medina, aud without arousing his snsnicion.
dismissed him will, with the promise thu, every ny
arrest Of Remie,a. The Commssary next
visited the ranch whore the story OF Medina's
On the following day RemiRia was found
hiding on ranch near the village OF Quilmos.
81 cf 5 Ge be bs hSs ss
had LEFT nSr home on 9"coun. Of the cruel
father had murdered several of Ms children.
Shs sad that some o, the bodies Of t, her
is @ Gss1 b Sai art
Taach. Upon THIS eyldsneo Nedina V1 and lis
wife wers arrested, They at, flrst denied the
n
ana s .ss to Y i
In Tsy fS nsd sn neE
tue village. the husband belnH a man Of all.
tie Acknowledgment The first II murdes osSsrred
after 'h ,s; had been married year AMI half.
Hssn e f1 Wh Sho sns1
Inc night Medina took the chill, AWAY from
s0mS o. horsoeaok nner the s,ex Of con-
the .childs breast, against the pomMel Of his
sadlc md crushed tn, breath out Of the t,s
b a" tsa When sas s'nsnf q
was heartbroken and reproached him for bis
crime but t9'k no stems to EXPOSE him Me-
dna So h a e that they
year later second son. Guadaloupe. six
weeks OLD. was taken from nome by the father.
taken home ard Iuried in the presence of the
mother, who again terame accessory to the
Tho neXt victim. baby boy was killed by
sst n when three months old and the
next nnfortunate ntSns were ss Fe
En who Vas o @ In her e5nd when
where in 1875, M.dna murderel his sixth
chris,ened. TITS crime was especially afro.
cious. According TO- the confession Of the
acainst his breast and buried him while vet
nSe ba h e where they
seems to have Sbandone .iS his e mnrhe ers
practices. aid tive sous and n daughter were
horn to him; all OF whom are still living Two
other sons born after these. however were
killed by Medina.
Twins born to he corple died under sus-
says he carried their bodies. three days after
able 10 to the eHpensa OF r n9s
funeral aud that tho sexton buried the chill
den den me Commlssary: Gueir however has
tran saction in the records OF the municipality,
and it Is suspected that the twiLs were also
fomlly dealt with.
The list OF Aledina's crimes was not restricted
to his own oispring. but included the murder
OF three sons OF his unmarried daughter. Re-
!nilin. The first. born in 1859. aud the second.
born in 1870. were beaten to death by their
grandfather. Ih.y were buried on the ranrh
in December. 1850 !temigia gave birth 10 the
third son. When the babe was twenty-five
dnvs old Medina one eyy,eninG ordered ltsmigia
xii ed the baby. RemiGia aid her mother
helped I bury the child behind the kitchen;
the adjacent towns. Excavations male on
Medi mas ranch have resulted in the finding OF
dren. Medina seems little moved eithsr by
the contem pation OF his crimes or the perll in
which their discovery has placed him. He SAYS
I hat he murdered his own children because he
had not the means 10 support them. AM, killed