The Green Forest tribune., 1912-06-21

ghost may find his way upon his long dark jour hey. After that they light fires as they consider that the dead man has had time to finish his journey.
 Whether Ascensio grew deranged suddenly or whether it was slow and gradual process no one can ever know, yet the fact remains that he came to believe in the religion of the Indians with some variations and startling effects of his own. Believing he did, that death was only a road by which man passed into longer and more enduring, though not necessarily an eternal life, he conceived the idea of building up fortune for himself in that future life
 In Ascenso's diseased brain there the idea that whatever he slew in this world would be his property in the next. On that point he maniac all others, perfectly sane Now began the series of thefts which made Brunels known from the Rio Negro to the Magellan straits. One after another he raided the horse farms the coast, drove away as much of the stock as he could, and, shaking off his pursuers in every instance, escaped into the widest parts of the pampas.
 So for long time for years indeed, Ascensio Brunei the Wild Man of Santa Cruz lived his life beyond the reach of the short of the Ar genuine law. Comasarios hunted him. various Jueces de PaZ acclaimed about him, and the garri- of cavalry in Chubut "bolted their beef, and started again the track of the thief" And then suddenly, morning, the news flew across the countryside that the Wild Man had been cap tured It was true. The way of it was as fol lows:
 In the very heart of Patagonia, upon the banks of river called the Mayo, lived, and indeed still live, tribe of Tehueche Indians, the taest and perhaps the strongest people earth. They are hunters and horsebreeders, wonderful riders and good men. They worship horsemanship and have a number of strange rites which they practice at the birth of man child in order to insure that he shall turn out good rider
 Into the nature of those rites need not go. They very cruel. I merely mention them that you may understand what task the Wild Man set himself when he decided to steal hun dred mares from men such as these peerless rid CTS, trained in every phase of horsemanship. much of whose lives is spent in searching for strayed horses and who ride hundred miles day without fatigue.
 It appears that the herd of mares that Ascensio stole were feeding in vega marsh that stretches the southern banks of the Mayo. No watching them and they well used to their pasturage, it seemed unlikely that they would stray Therefore, when shortly after dawn Indian lad came galloping to the toldos with the news that the mares had disappeared, the men of the tribe were soon on horseback and rid ing upon their trail.
 Hard the trail the Indians rode all day, and before sunset they were aware of man clad in skins driving the mares before him. Swiftly some of the pursuers closed in on him. while others rode to cut him off by canadon or rift in the pampas which lay across his path. Had it not been for this canadon the Wild Man would never, in all probability have been taken.
 As it was he galloped down the sheer wall of it, but only to find himself cut off by the Indians who had been detached from the main body by the cacique for the purpose Riding in upon him the Indians flung their heavy boleandores-tbe Tehuelche weapon of three rawhde thongs each weighted at the end with ball of stone-which entangled the legs of the Wild Mans horse and brought it crashing to the ground. On the ground the Indians captured the Wild Man. snarling and biting.