The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-08-25 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

BRUTAL SCENE IN SPAIN.  A letter from Alartorell (Catalonia) of August 11, gives the following account of the capture and slaughter by Narvaez's Shirri of the famous partisan chief known as Noy de las Baraquetas :1 have already told you that Narvaers amnesty was but a respite, or rather a snare, to throw the Liberal, elf their guard. Fusillades go on and, worse still, people are massacred, and the helpless and wounded UM through and through with bayonets, just as in the palmy days frem 1051 to 1.5.5.1. Foe such purpotes recourse is had to the services of •the Civil.Buarde, and espeeially those 1.11101111 Moats de la Eacusiira whose savage exploits were recounted In January last, when they fired point blank upon the elegant or. of proruens dere under the arcades of the Place Royale of Racelone, Don Vincent Marti, commonly called Noy de lu Bars. quotas, Is one of the richest and most esteemed landed proprietors of Martorell. He was at onetime an ardent partisan of Prim, in whose last proriunciumento he took part; hut In January last he ilaurelled with Prim because the latter would not transfer the theatre of hes operations to Catalonia. Ever ',lnce he has lived quietly on his property Ile rallied to O'Donnell, and was conablered so tench a man of order that since May last he dined almost daily with the Captain-General intoner, But he refused, in spite of threats and entreaties, to pronounce for Narvaer, and therefore, although he did no hostile act, It was resolved to take his life On August Ilth an armed force surrouteled his house and made him • prisoner, one of the Mozos telling him that he would be taken to Barcelona, where 'his affair would be settled" Marti knew wbat this meant, as did his brother and his friends. If they must die, they said, it was better to die with anus in their hands than to serve as targets for trembling recruits to shoot at. They collected together to the number of 30, and. armed with blunderbusses, proceeded to the railway station with the intention of rescuing the prisoner Finding the waiting room full of people they tired at the ceiling sari brought clown • shower of dust and plaster. At the same moment if Nlarti's brother, a man of Herculean strength, knocked down both the guards who were holding the prisoner on either side A combat ensued_ M Marti was rue through the belly by a bayonet, and his bowels gushed out One of his party with the blow of a gunstock knocked down the Mors who had inflicted the wound; and two of the band, laying bold of M Marti, the svhole party made ott with him into the field, hoping to Mid a Wit, g-place. The Nliisua, recovering from the surprise caused by the dust shower in the railway station, pursued the fugitives and came up with them in an olive garden. SI Marti's party, protected by trunks id old trees, forced the Met is to retreat, and, after an hour's march, they found a spot where they thought id Marti might be concealed. But he, feeling tunnel dying, t Id them to leave him and save themselves Three hours later the Mozos, guided by Clod marks on the ground, came to the spot where the unt• irtm vats M Marti was lying alone. "Ah, aft '"they said, "this time you shall not escape us." Instead of putting a hall through the head of the dying man, they recalled him to a sense of life by pt Mks with the bayonet's point, snit stabbed him all over in so many places that you could not have lain a crown piece mem any unwounded part of his body. The incignation in the country is SO great that the CaptainGeneral felt it necessary to come to Martorell in person, with an entire regiment. The band, headed by the de! ceased'. brother. swells every day, and a good many of the Wzos who are 11,hting with them have been killed. It is certain that M. Marti was murdered in cold blood, for he was lying helpless and alone, with a death wound which he had received three hour. before be was hacked to death.