Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-16
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IA m ADRip, s7ay 3.--Few dime nov.
A/ els that nave fred tho imaen.
" alton OF sensation loving youus
Americans have dealt with 10
interesting dno. at the same time so
fascinating scoundrcl as III viyillo.
the Andalusian bandit who was arrest.
Cd recently in Buenos Ayres. Argen-
tina. lie now lies imprisoned under
very heavy guard, in the penal prison
al cadlz but no one who knows any
thine about his career and his extra
ordinary capacity for wriggling out Of
difficulties expects that he win remain
within the four wallis Of his jail very
long. II is limited in high circles here
thu, the hearts Of many fair and in
tlucntal ladies OF sunny Spain have
been lost to the daring desperate. and
that their owners viii move heaven
and earth to obtain his release.
Despite his itfe Of crime and un-
DOUBTED yiclousness, El Vivillo has beer
the IaVes.te hero Of the youth OF this
country foI more than rs years. The
youngsters have followed his adver-
turous career us set forth from time
10 time In the papers with bated breath
ana sparkling eyes and have no doubt
one and ali lougcd 10 some DAY emulate
the bandit and the band Of precious
soamps he 80 successfully captaiued
CHRONIC JAlt.-BREAKER
This is not ~ Vivilos first term be-
hind prison bars, but all attempts to
Keep him there have proved unsuCCcss
tul heretofore. Either by the oXpcndi-
Nilrp OF money in largo sums, the IN |
flucnce of those IN high places or his |
o%n genius as i9il breaker he has |
walked out apparently when he pleased. |
Like most heroes, either OF fiction OF
reality, he seems to have borne
charmed life OF the reckless band of
lawless characters he led during his is
ycars as the leading Knight OF the
load" III Nivlllo, with one exception,
Is the only one still alive An the
others have fallen in skiruishes with
that very excellent and surc-shootng
body Of mounted police, the civil
Guards III Nivillo's sole fellow SUR
viyor Of those strenuous times Is Pa
iarito, his lieutenant, who is under
soins sentence of 81 years penal SER
vltude In Cordova prison La Par
iarito yields only to bis chief IN hts
record Of rascality.
MODERN ROBIN HOOD.
4 halo OF romance has grown up
around El Nivillo aud his band Ac-
cording to tie general opinion among
the ignorant Spaniards of the country
side he is sort of second Robin Hood,
rcbhlng the rich and assisting the poor.
Some OF the stories which are told
of him and on which this view is based
undoubtedly are true, but the great
majority Of them just as surely were
woven out of thu air by imaginative |
writers attached TO the press
El vivillo was born in the Andalusian
town Of Estepa in 1865. AS Il very |
young boy he acquired u remarkable |
dexterity with the cards, and 1t was |
through the constant exercise .of this |
talent that he eurned the nickname by !
which he has always been known to the
exclusion of his family name. III VII
VINO, translated into English means
Lively Little One and from all ac-
counts the future bandit was a very
precocious youth. His parents appear
TO have been honest, simple folk and
made q real effort to train him for q
commercial career. He was sent to
Cordova TO serve an apprenticeship In
business house, but his employer soon
bundled him back home again because
of his unruly ways Under the pa
ternal roof he then remained until he
reached the age of 49, when both his
parents died and he inherited II small
fortune.
D1SsIPATED FORTUNE.
FL vivillo Immediately started out TO
paint his home Town red. His one
idea seemed to be TO get rid of his
fortune in record time, and so success
ful was he that IN TWO years he was
penniless. At this embarrassing point
In his career he fell violently in love
( with the girl who afterward became
his wife. She was a beautiful. dark
eyed woman named Dolores Gomez, and
had hosts OF admirers What she ever
saw in lei Vivillo to admire 1t is hard
to say. Indeed. what the scores of wo-
men who afte1ward lost their hearts
to the bold rascal saw in him it is
equally difficult to discover. He Is to-
dav IA burly, ruddy-c omplexioned man
with distinctly vulgar and repulsive
features and II does not seem possible
that he ever could have been attractive
to feminine eys. His manner is harsh
and overbearing, and he feels, and