Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1878 — Brigandage in Chill. [ARTICLE]

Brigandage in Chill.

PThe Panama Star and Herald, of a recent date, says: “Brigandage is apparently on the increase in Chill. In the southern part of the State bands of desperadoes associate themselves together for purposes of robbery and murder. These bands are large and formidable, are thoroughly organized under apparently intelligent leadership, and can only be resisted and overcome by organized force. The record of their crimes is semething appalling. Murders the most revolting horrify the community, and are committed with apparently no other object in the world .than to destroy witnesses to the foul deeds, on the principle that dead men tell no tajps. One of these bands consists of. thirty men, who are under the command of a scoundrel who almost excels in ferocity Nena Sahib. They have their headquarters near Lebu, and no passer-by, except in daylight and under peculiarly fortunate circumstances, escapes with his property and life. The rural police appear to be utterly powerless to control the evil, either from want of strength or organization, or from lack of purpose. The evil has become so serious that it calls loudly for Government interference. The bandits are of the very lowest order, mostly half-breeds and vicious and ignorant, who were led to crime by their own fiendish instincts, and encouraged in it through the laxity of the laws and the inefficiency of the magistracy and the police. Now that their Congress is in session, Chilenos should see to it that this moral excrescence is promptly and efficaciously removed.” —' ■■ dto a —A Pennsylvania Brutus, revolver in hand, drove his son back to the owner of the boots the young man had stolen. The young man then stole them again, and Brutus took him to the stationhouse, to be placed among the other thieves. = To the victors belong about one-six-teenth of the spoils. I’ll take the other fifteen. — Beaconsfield, in the Detroit Free Press.