The Mysterious Man.
Tijerk has always been a delicious air of romance about a brigand. It lias ever seemed less offensive to have one's eyes gouged oid., nose &Ut, or cars chopped off by a dark-skinned person in black hair and romantic garments than to bo garrotted by a British roguo in mere- fustian. But it may be wagered that nothing so romantic appears in the chronicles of brigandage as is related in the memoirs of those two eminent Moxicans, Church o el Poto and " the Mysterious Man," both now defunct in consequence of unpremeditated collision with military bullets. Churcho has thieved in every grade of tho profession ; nothing was too unclean for his unhallowed hands. Aftor his death it came to knowledge that all his earnings wero devoted to the education and maintenance of his daughter, a charming young lady of eighteen, who had no idea that tho wealth she wallowed in was "borrowed." "The Mysterious Man," young, dashing, brave, beloved by tho ragged rascals he commanded, was preeminent for his cruelty and lust of blood. When the soldiers searched for the eight bullets that had entered his heart they discovered that he was only a woman J
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 75, 8 November 1884, Page 4
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199The Mysterious Man. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 75, 8 November 1884, Page 4
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