Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — Four Bullets in His Body. [ARTICLE]

Four Bullets in His Body.

Hahut de picaro—that is, t lie health of a rogue—has passed into a proverb, and it is exemplified in the case of u man the Herald mentioned several weeks ago. He was condemned to death in (Inunajunto for stealing a can of petroleum, unit wus actually led out and shot, three bullets penetrating his body, and the coup de grace was then given him just to make sure, fortunately for him with a pistol and not a rifle. When the tiring squad marched off the fellow got up an 1 ran away with all that lead about his person! He came to Mexico, and is at tlie Han Pablo Hospital, where lie stands an excellent chance of geltiug well. Naturally, be strenuously objects to returning to Guanajuato, as bis constitution might not stand another such a strain. And it does not seem fair to shoot a man after he Is legally dead for so small a matter us a can of oil.