Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-06-20

was a marvellous rider and his services and those
Of bis brother We're in considerable request all
over the south So some months and even years
Wen, by during which many hundreds of animals
passed through the hands of the Brunels and
they became the owners of a comparatively large
troop OF horses. Ascensio. though a savage and
nercieSs rider never during all this time gave
glimpse of the ferocity which underlay his
character.
At length the two brothers happened, in the
natural course of their nomadic profession to
come to the estancia-this fine word may mean
anything from a large residence to a mud howell
with roof Of tin-of farmer who had recently
settled in the country and who the husband
Of very pretty wife, a dark beauty Of it was
runored, rather uncertain temper
The farmer gave the brothers a horse.breaking
contract and for some weeks all went we'll
One evening when the farmer tired from a long
Day IN the saddle, had just come home Ascensio
brunei entered and having. it is said put him off
bis guard by making some simple little request,
murdered him in cold blood
Inc actual details of this, Ascensio's first, muir
Ger are hard TO come by Henri, whom ! met
near Ultima Casa, never told the same story twice
running, and the only other witness, the wife of
tAe murdered man, passed through some terrible
experiences and never heard her authentic story.
The main fact remains
Ascensio murdered the farmer in order that he
might carry of his wife, which he did besides
arriving the whole stock the cattle, sheep and
lo,Se' oil the dead man, into the heart Of the
wilderness
Here for time, the two brothers dwelt with
ene unhappy woman, until at last Ascensio quar-
'e'eu win Henri. 1t not for the first time,
puu Hehri went to sleep, thinking 1t would have
a.. passed over in the morning. He was wakened
q o""n by voice shouting to him, and saw at
ouye mat during the night Ascensio had driven
uNay all the horses and had also removed the
woman.
r. ASVelSio then said he had decided to part com.
ea'S win his brother for good and all; that at
uS. mad been in his mind to kill him in his
yep oul Tor their mothers sake he had re-
ru,eu' lie added that he had shifted the horses
1 slo'H 10 safe distance and that If Henri fol-
r he would unhesitatingly shoot him down.
Ne 'ueh rode away without more words
as HehFl mad neither horse nor weapons he did
+ o.. .o"o"' indeed all his efforts were directed
S' ra,u se'uhg out of the wilderness alive Living
49, upon berries, he wandered for many days
--1"S TO arrive, an emacated wreck at the
.''ahca OF an Argentine herdsman. The latter
t, nDeu nm and when he was recovered gave
49,, 9"'"cIeht provision to take him to the nearest
'V1naement, where he duly arrived
'o'eu innocent Of the murder his brother had
S@r"'''eu ne went back to the life of peon and
good P'''''' o'' VI 'NiS n's'o'S io'
/ rir -|y next act in the drama opens with the ar
3" me coast settlement at Punta Arenas of the
/ HIN ,a AN "hom Ascenso had forced to accompany
a. '-Io me Wilderness She had frightful tale
| escape Nu''''i'"'i"s III io''unu'o
IL appears that Ascenso had become subject to
49, o' passion so frghtfu that they were akin to
n r. g.'sS' and indeed madness OF a kind had al
.sa1S declared itself in him.
bo,as lehuelches of Patagonia hold the welknown
az common to many branches OF the Indian
H. ~, mat when they die they pass to the Happy
,bar Grounds On the grave OF a warrior
MAJ say MS dogs and horses; within It they
u''' hindle great fires. by the light of which the