Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 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 once more.
In the Argentine Republic there is no 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 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 a 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 horse from 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 a kind word, the Wild
Man. each time he procured 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 more
he raided their mares and drove away a great
troop of them His intention doubtless to
get them to suitable spot and there kill
them, thereby gratifying his peculiar and
bloody-minded beliefs and at the time re-
vengng himself upon the Indians.
The instant they discovered their loss the
this time Ascensio drove them like madman, as
indeed he
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 was
mounted upon a gigantic horse. AS he rode.
he uttered cry of lion, and the frenzied and
terrified mares gaoped wildly in front of him.
The 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 convused with rage and hate turn
at bay. The Indian grew afraid and paused
They looked at each other for 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 the following day.
Near the cordilera of the Andes an adyen
turous German settler had squatted with his fam
lily, 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 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 man lying in It,
The news of this crime and of others. which
followed close upon it, aroused the whole dis
trct. Neither nor woman could feel safe
while the Wild Man lived, and at last body OF
armed settlers ran the criminal to earth in a
house which he had entered for purposes OF
plunder. He never left that house alive, but fell
op the threshold riddled with bullets, yet not be.
fore he had left his mark upon more than one Of
his assailants