Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-06-21

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OF MS brother We're in considerable request all
the south. So some months and even wears
went by during which many hundreds of animals
passed through the hands of the Brunes, and
they became the owners of a comparatively large
troop of horses Ascensio, though a savage and
merciless rider, during all this time gave
glimpse of the ferocty which underay 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 hovel
with roof of tin-of farmer who had recently
settled in the country and who was the husband
OF very pretty wife, a dark beauty of. it was
rumored. rather uncertain temper.
The farmer gave the brothers horse-breaking
contract and for some weeks all went we'll.
One evening when the farmer tired from long
day in the saddle. had just come home, Ascensio
Brunei entered and having 1t Is said, put him of
his guard by making some simple little request,
murdered him in cold blood.
The actual details Of this, Ascensio's first muir
der are hard to come by. Henri, whom l met
near Ultima Casa, never told the same story twice
running and the only other witness, the wife of
the 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 off his wife, which he did, besides
driving the whole stock, the cattle sheep and
horses of the dead man, into the heart Of the
wilderness.
Here for time, the two brothers dwelt with
the unhappy woman until at last Ascensio quar-
relied with Henri 1t was not for the first time.
and Henri went to sleep, thinking it would have
all passed over in the morning He was wakened
at dawn by voice shouting to him, and saw at
that during the night Ascensio had driven
away all the horses and had also removed the
wcman.
Ascensio then said he had decided to part COM
parry with his brother for good and all; that at
fist it had been in his mind to kill him in his
site0, but for their mothers sake he had re-
Tented He added that he had shifted the horses
and stock TO a safe distance, and that if Henri fol-
loved he would unhesitatngly shoot him down.
lie len rode away without more words.
IS Henri had neither horse nor weapons he did
not follow. Indeed all his efforts directed
toy getting out of the wilderness alive. Living
chi, Ny upon berries, he wandered for many days,
finally to arrive, emaciated wreck, at the
estancia of an Argentine herdsman. The latter
tended him and, when he was recovered gave
him sufficient provision to take him to the nearest
settlement where he duly arrived.
Proved innocent of the murder his brother had
committed he went back to the life of peon and
shepherd. and so he passes out of this history for
good
The next act in the drama opens with the ar
rival in the coast settlement at Punta Arenas of the
woman whom Ascensio had forced to accompany
him into the wilderness. She had frightful tale
of cruelty to relate, eliminating in fortunate
escape
1t appears that Ascensio had become subject to
fits of passion 80 frightful that they We're akin to
Madness and indeed madness of kind had al
ready declared itself in him. -
The Tehuelchss of Patagonia hold the well-known
belief, common tc many branches of the Indian
race, that when they die they pass to the Happy
Hunting Grounds, On the grave of = warrior
they slay his dogs and horses; with 1t they
place saddle. knife and food. and for nine nights
they kind!e great fires. by the light OF which the