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Show A Terrible Tale. A horrible story of brigandage reaches us from Chi.i L .goberon, a notorious bandit Captain, was so closely pursued by a body of South American troops recently re-cently that he wa3 compelled to quit his band of brother cut-throats, who had been the terror of the whole country round, and taks refuge in a cavern situated near the summit of one of the lofty mountains of the Sierra Profounds, In this cavern he had concealed a female captive, whose husband he had robbed and slain. The soldiers made several ineffectual in-effectual attempts to reach the abode of the culprit. Lagoberon, a man of gigantic stature and herculean strength, succeeded in beating them oil" by rolling heavy rocks down upon them whenever they approached. The officer in command of the troops resolved at first to starve the bandit out,but after two days' blockage grew weary of so tedious an expedient, improvised im-provised an escalade of the chieftain's stronghold, and succeeded in capturing captur-ing him. To their horror upon entering en-tering the cavern they found the poor woman in a dying condition, Lagoberon Lago-beron huvirjg cut off one of the breasts of the unfortunate captive and eaten it. The inhuman butcher was conveyed con-veyed to Talca, where he was prompt-t.ied prompt-t.ied and condemned to did by tie garrote. He was speedily conducted to the Ecaffo'.d, and while the executioner ex-ecutioner waa engaged in adjusting his toillctle de mort the convict diew a whistle which he had concealed in Lis pocket, and blew it sharply; whereupon where-upon about sixty of his followers, who had introduced themselves among the crowd surrounding the scaffold, rushed upon the gendarmes and massacred them ere they could offer any resistance. Then they freed their chief and garroted his would-be executioner, after which they escaped, almost unscathed, to the mountaius, facilitating their flight by seizing the horses of the murdered gensdarmes. Tuey also .carried off several women from the throng gathered gath-ered to witness the execution. |