Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1874 — Secret Assassinations in South America. [ARTICLE]

Secret Assassinations in South America.

A Buenos Ayres paper says: “An important discovery bas just been made. For some time past well-known residents in San Isidro have frequently disappeared without anything being subsequently heard of them. A train from the north recently left a case at the San Isidro station, and the persons to whom it was consigned immediately applied for it and left for a farm in the neighborhood on which there is a solitary house. Rumors of revolution which had been current led the Justice of the Peace to be on the qui vive, and happening to notice the case he imagined that it might contain'arms for the use of some of the suspected rebels. He therefore ordered some policemen to. follow the case and examine it on its arrival at its destination. It was carried into the house through a doorway so narrow that entrance, even one at a time, was difficult. They found themselves in a narrow and short hallway, and pushing on entered a room about five yards square, in which were a number of skeletons and bones, and other human remains. On the wall at the end was an inscription in Italian, meaning, 4 So die all traitors.’ Another small room was then examined and a large cellar. Nothing remarkable was found in the first, but in the cellar a large number of stilettos, daggers, knives, pistols, and other murderous weapons were found. On many of these weapons the same inscription, 4 So die all traitors,’ was found, and it may not be out of place to remember that the same were found on the dagger which some years age caused the death of the Italian Consul in' Buenos Ayres. The cellar was also full of bones, and among them the head of a woman was observed to which still adhered.” f