The Green Forest tribune., 1912-06-21

upon horse and conveyed him over three hun dred miles of pampas to Gallegos, where they handed him to the authorities in due form He was thrown into prison and the Indians de- parted for their wilderness home 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 cer- tain-penal servitude for life.
 But it never came to trial. for it 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, 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 horse from one of these farms and rode on up the coast. While the ordinary traveller dismisses the horse which has borne him gallantly and well with a pat and kind word the Wild Man each time he procured a fresh mount, re- 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 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-mnded beliefs and at the same time re- yenging himself upon the Indians.
 The instant they discovered their loss the Indians rode on the trail of the mares, but this time Ascenso drove them like madman as indeed he was.
 The sun was already falling toward the west when they spied him at last He was nearly naked, for he had flung away the clothes which had been supplied to him in the jail and mounted upon a gigantic horse. As he rode, he uttered cry of lion, and the frenzied and terrified mares galloped wildly in front of him.
 The sun sank and the chase continued One by the TehuelcheS dropped away until at last the Wild Man and single Indian alone remained. Now the moon in the sky and by its light the Indian the Wild Man slacken his pace and, with features convulsed 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 rejoned the following day
 Near the cordera of the Andes an 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 it to find man clad in skins facing him.
 The appeared to be emaciated and certainly of the most extraordinary appearance. his whole face being blackened by an almost continuous growth of hair.
 The man demanded food, whereupon the Ger man invited him to enter and, taking frying pan, commenced to cook some meat. As he bent over the fire the Wild Man, with senseless and brutal cruelty, shot him through the back and. helping himself to various provisions. left the house and the dead lying in 1t
 The news of this crime and of others, which followed close upon 1t, aroused the whole dis trict Neither could feel safe while the Wild Man lived, and at last body of armed settlers the crtI.ral to earth in house which he had entered ror purposes of plunder He never left that house, alive, but fell the threshold riddled with bullets yet not be- fore he had left his mark upon more than of his assailants.