The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-06-21

upon horse and conveyed him over three hun
dred miles of pampas to Galegos, where they
handed him over to the authorities in due form
He was thrown into prison and the Indians ue-
parted for their wilderness home once more.
In the Argentine Republic there is capital
punishment, so that after his trial, the sentence
that would be passed upon the Wild Man was GER
tain-penal servitude for life
But it never came to trial. for 1t was not long
before the warders of the prison awoke one morn
ing to find their prisoner gone. He had cut his
way out through the walls of wood, stolen horse
that had been tied by some late visitor before
the door of house in the main street, ridden
through the night until, at dawn. he found him
self far out upon the pampas
All along this belt Of country from Gallegos to
Santa Cruz scattered farms set along the coast
at frequent intervals. The Wild Man turned north
and, on the second day of his escape caught and
stole a horse from one of these farms and so
rode up the coast. While the ordinary traveller
dismsses the horse which has borne him gallantly
and well with pat and kind word the Wild
Man, each time he procured fresh mount,
turned to his tired and weary beast and killed it.
And then one night, before the Indians had
even heard of his escape from JAIL once more
he raided their mares and drove away a great
troop of them His intention doubtless to
get them to some suitable spot and there kill
them, thereby gratifying his own peculiar and
bloody-minded beliefs and at the same time
The instant they discovered their loss the
Indians rode the trail CT the mares, but
this time Ascenso drove them like a mailman, as
indeed he was.
The already falling toward the west
when they spied him at last. He nearly
naked, for he had flung away the clothes which
had been supplied to him in the Jail, and was
mounted upon a gigantic horse. AS he rode,
he uttered cry of a lion, an! the frenzied and
terrified mares galloped wildly in front of him
The sun sank and the chase continued. One
by one the Tehuelches dropped away until at last
the Wild Man and single Indian alone remained.
Now the moon was in the sky and by Its light the
Indian the Wild Man slacken his pace and,
with features convused with rage and hate, turn
at bay. The Indian grew afraid and paused.
They looked at each other for a moment and
then the Wild Man laughed aloud and, turning his
great yellow horse, rode slowly to the west.
while the Indian returned to his companions
whom he rejoined on the following day.
Near the cordillera of the Andes adven-
turous German settler had squatted with his fam
fly and had built himself small house or hut
One night the German was awakened by knock
ing at the door and opened 1t to find man clad
in skins facing him
The man appeared to be emaciated and was
certainly of the most extraordinary appearance,
his whole face being blackened by almost
continuous growth of hair
The man demanded food whereupon the Ger.
man invited him to enter and taking a frying
pan, commenced to cook some meat AS ne bent
over the fire the Wild Man, with senseess and
brutal cruelty, shot him through the back and
helping himself to various provisions, left the
house and the dead man lying in It.
The news Of this crime and Of others, which
followed close upon it, aroused the whole dis
trict. Neither man nor woman could feel safe
while the Wild Man lived, and at last body OF
armed settlers the criminal to earth in
house which he had entered for purposes OF
plumber. He never left that house alive but fell
on the threshold ridded with bullets, yet not be-
fore he had left his mark upon more than one OF
his assailants