Show E evil 61 sp spirits iril AS A S in ecuador wilds wads Ar paid to carr carry r on strife bred by old land grants Gu ayaquil the stretch fi of land lying between lie he hinves ond and pueblo clejo rivers vis on the he western bank ol of the he contains some fit tle tilt hest best cattle rind cico carao farms of and its dark flank forests of enrio trees seem to he be the stronghold of lie he of murder that mat Is planned slay ings by hired who are rendy ready fr for a few dollars to snuff out fl a binns life with a shotgun front from behind some thicket or ns is in lie case of the lie recent mendoza Menil kill kili ing this city even in a theater heiter crowd there tire are bensons for this deep tooted rooted in the forni form of the land holdings which flate boric back to old gra graines ints either to fortner former function arles aries of the crown for services or to oid revolutionary sold soldiers lers the grants sold in the form of charest which were never property prop eily surveyed or delimited and disputes over the en engender jender hatred haired the inefficiency of 01 the lie laws for or punish punishing ng cuttle cattle stealing and other forms of lawlessness and abo opportunity offered by the frequent revolutions for some bati bandit clit or bad man to commit crimes with impunity to the alie war cry of viva some other also forced the larger plantation bowhers to organize their own bands on oD guards in ID self defense i paves way for slaughter but once the respect for human bunion life ife was lost through indulgence in more or less warranted and legitimate ate killings of real bandits and robbers it was an easy step to killing an obstreperous neighbor who or rany anny not buve had souie some right to his claims to 0 land ones sensations in riding for the first lime in A largo large cacao plant plantation atlon are errie ilor for nilles miles one Is lieu hemmed in on all sides by the closely planted trees at distances of nine to twelve feat the lotsof lopa of which meet overhead to shut out the sun completely making it impossible to see wore more thun than a couple of hundred bundred yards at the niost directly down the he row one Is riding tn in and then only in a comparatively i young plantation every acre or so there here la Is a large matapalo ma tree with its many buttresses making ideal hiding places for any sort of real or imaginary peril and so even to the foreigner at peace with all the world there cornea comes a feeling of uneasiness and even dread one can imagine I 1 the he sensations of some hacen dado threatened by an enemy ov oa one who lias has hadbo use the he biow of flight on ou souie cattle thief this Is where the recent murder of enrique Afen mendoza doza prom iDent planter which has startled Gu ayaquil had find its origin all lie principals in tills this trag i edy have holdings in this fearsome estrict and while most of them hud had lived in europe the force of custom and perhaps circumstances was great er cr titan than the restraining influence of any sq associations abroad from the current versions of the crime it seems that the youn younger er men aien dozas alberto arid and enrique coliS considered fil e ed tile wronged ly by their uncle fel felepe I 1 lie find and his agent III guaya aguaya quil lautaro aspiazu Asp limi lazu unit and that un en adlite ond threatened asplan the actual killer who was vas for the iced deed from up the river asserts erts lie he wits hired by Asp aspiazu lazu to do the job for OAR sucrel sucres and that he wits promised immunity strange third degree when this ninn nian carriel was in jell lie he was submitted to a strange furm form of third degree when fits food ans brought in the tie sentry halted tile the bearer and said that hut till all food fur for him was suspected of heing being poisoned mid so it must be tested on a dog thereupon 11 some ot of the meal wits was fed to a stray cur which lied died in typical strychnine convulsions this so impressed carriel moray although it wits betraying one of ids his former inns that tie made a clean breast of all tile the instances of the recent killing as well us as of many more telling I 1 of the famous pool into which felipe mendoza was wag sal said I 1 to have thrown several persons unit and giving details of several famous murders in years past carde carrvel who had run bare 1 foot all his life and was dressed up so 90 that he be would not attract so much attention ashe he awaited his intended victim on the theater steps tried to run otter after stabbing enraque Mend blen doza who wua as leaving the theater after the sunday evening performance perform atice with lila hn wife but carriel was caught easily lie he said he could not run with shoes on as they hurt his feet ue received lucres sucres in advance for his fits or little jot job and low tn in jail and to be tried for cor adur murder he Is trying to get a lawyer labye r to bring suit against aspiazu and mendoza for the sucres lucres which he be asserts are due him |