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Show CANNIBALISM. Tlie Horrible Story of Eating Human Flesh. A Man Kills His Bast Friends and Devours De-vours Their Bodies He Says the Flesh Is too Sweet to Be Agreeable New York, July !. A little three column newspaper printed in the interior inte-rior of Brazil, which reached here today, to-day, contains a horrible story of cannibalism. canni-balism. A man named Clement Vieira is under arrest at Salinas, state of Minas, Brazil, charged with eating human hu-man flesh. In a talk with the editor he said that for some time he and a number of others had lived upon tinman tin-man flesh, and when asked what motive mo-tive impelled them to such barbarous acts, said it was because they liked it. Asked how they secured the first victim, vic-tim, he said he went one day to the house of a friend, named Leandro, who invited him to eat a piece of his (Leandro's) dead child. He was hungry hun-gry and did so. The following day he toimd a woman asleep by the roadside. He killed her and took her body home. Soon after he killed a friend named Simplisio, and with the assistance of Francisco and Severn ate him. When his flesh was all consumed, Simplisio's two sons were killed for further supply of food. Later on Basilio and a prisoner rilled and devoured Francisco, and finally Vieira, having discovered that Basilio had stolen a shirt from him, killed him. He ate very little of him, however, for he was arreste 1 within two days of the murder. Vieira was captured in the act of making a meal off a portion of llasilio's remains. The soldiers found a part of Basilio's body packed away in a barrel, prepared w ith pepper and salt. "Then has human flesh an agreeable taste?" Vieira was asked. 'No," he replied; "it is too sweet. The part I found the most toothsome was the brain. We ate it fresh, roasted or boiled, seasoned with salt and a great deal of pepper.' Vieira expressed no remorse for what he had dont;, |