Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1909 — Strange Mexican Fanatics. [ARTICLE]

Strange Mexican Fanatics.

“There’s a fanatical sect down in Mexico about 250 miles from El Paso,’’ said H. P. Murdock of Mexico City, Mexico. “These natives get what they call reorganized shortly after they attain manhood. They profess to go into a trance somewhere in the mountains and during this trance they are mentally reorganized. “The trance lasts fifteen days and when it is finished the young Mexican comes back with blood in his eye. His sole purpose for the next three days is to kill. The first day he kills everything he can lay his hands on of vegetable life. He cuts down corn and everything growing, tearing things up in a great frenzy. His tribemen look on with Interest but do not Interfere. The second day he kills everything he can of beast life —horses, dogs, cats and the wild animals. The thin! day he starts after human life. Then the tribe gets busy. It is not allowed to use a weapon against him. "When he attacks a man of the tribe half a dozen others disarm him. He struggles until exhausted. When he recovers he goes at It again, stealing a weapon wherever he can. In most cases he wounds at least three or four men frequently kills the same number. But no punishment is visited upon him.’’ ' I Sunday Is a day for deeds, bat a few distributed throughout the week often helps some.