New Britain herald., 1929-06-21
BRAZILIAN BANDIT
 FEARS NO POLICE
Clptar6 Shelin's House and
 GiT6 Cigars to Cops

Rio De Janeiro, June 21 (CP)- Virgoino Ferreira da Silva. specta- cled, gaily-accoutered bad boy of the Brazilian hinterland. who has enough charges against him to fill a docket book. continues to provide cause for the existence of police.
 The bandit. better known as Lampeao. Portuguese for lamp post, is roaming through the thinly-fn- habited sections of the states of Bahia and Sergipe in the northeast. surrounded by band which has left bloody trail.
 Lampeao, whose notoriety has already found it's way into the sen- sational paper-covered novels. is young in appearance. He is blind in one eye, and wears shell-rimmed glasses. Lampeao and his men. sometimes numbering 15O. use hardy little mules to evade the po- lice. even though the notorious ban- dit leader has virtually thumbed his nose at the law and its agents, and contemptuously told those who seek him to Ego to he'll" if the meager dispatches from the northern back woods are to be credited
 This bandit does not represent the true Brazilian by any means. Rather he typifies the last important rem nant of that class of bad men" which infests the frontier coutnry of Brazil, sort of counterpart Of Jesse James and other famous gun- men of the wild and woolly west of the not-so-recent days in the United States. That section of the country which Lampeao calls his home is experiencing the same trib- ulations that the frontier inhabitants of the United States went through in the days of the homesteaders and the gold rushes.
 Accompanied by Brother
 Police have difficulty in coping with Lampeao and his band due to the latters' vast knowledge of the back country, and their ability to move quickly while the posses make their way slowly over the scarcely known territory.
 Innumerable stories. many of them without foundation, have grown up about Lampeao, and his name has become almost a by-word in Brazil. These tales have found their way into pamphlets of the Dead Shot Dick type, reeking with murder and banditry. and done in style, which, If not founded on fact. certainly is arresting.
 A justice or the peace at the vil- lage of Carira, who saw Lampeao. said the bandit is now accompanied by . brother. The men wear shirts and trousers of cheap blue cloth. sandles, and large red hats. Lam- peao's cartridge belt is two palms in width. carries four rows of am intuition, and two rows of gold and silver buttons. The belt is worn over his shirt, and its size iprevsnts him from being able to UcuU at tue "olot. 1iC "toio crom on his cooked hat. He and his men travel well armed at all timeA
 The picture also revealed the paradoxical information that Lam- peao left Carira because he was un- able to find a good concertina. These musiciaV!
 Crimes without number are alleg- ed to have been committed by Lampeao and his aides. The latest crime attributed to the Lamp Post" is tho raiding of farm in the state of Bahi. stealing eight contos (ap- proximately $l,0O0) and some cat tie. and attacking the farmers two daughters. He is described as being a sadist of the first degree, relishins crimes of the most chilling sort.
 Took SheriF's House
 Picturesque tales are told about I.ampeao. When he entered the vil- lage of Carira he is said to have made the sheriff's house into tenn porary hotel for himself and his men. The police force of Carira consisted of six members, four Of which fled when they heard of the approach. The two who remained were entertained with drinks and cigars by Lampeao, who