CRIME IN BUENOS AYRES.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1756, 19 August 1874, Page 3

CRIME IN BUENOS AYRES.

Crime in Buenos Ay res seems to have fetched ajaitchwhich calls fas* the serious intervention of the .authorities.. The London I)aily Standardsays:—The capital of the Argentine Republic would appear to be just now one of the least desirable .places on earth for those who are in search. „of a quiet neighborhood. It is hard to f»y whether it is- ■pr.o^j^t^^M.n to^be absolutely/-inoffensive- and neutral or actively engaged in the, profession of politics, Just as it is difficult to pronounce whetheirtho assassins or the police are the most dangerous. The last file of papers from Buenos Ayres contains such a list of murders, outrages, and acts of violencej as perhaps never was paralleled ic^ie monthly record of any city pretcnding^to be the abode of civilised men. Even Virginia City, in the flower of its rowdyism, must have been a Paradise in comparison- Let us take a few cases from the local journals. In Socorro parish, a peasant gets into an argument with two companions, and uses his knife on them with such effect that one dies on the spot, , and the other iias a side of his face sliced ' off. The murderer, on be;ng arrested, shows his dexterity before an admiring crowd by flinging his bloody weapon into the air and'catching it by the handle as it falls. Two Italians dining at afonda in the Call© Chile come to high words, the discussion terminating in one drawing ; a digger and the other a pistol, whereupon the landlord promptly intervenes by firing all the six barrels of his revolver at the man of the dagger, who is carried away to the hospital with three bullets in his body. A political dispute in a corner of the street between two partisans of Mitre and Alsina concludes by both drawing their knives and wounding one another, whereupon a policeman appears, who is chased off the ground by the combatants. A young man taking the air in the Plaza Retiro is accostf d by a soldier of the line with an invitation to the barracks. On the way thither the soldier draws his bayonet and fells his new acquaintance after relieving him of 120 dollars. A peaceful Austrian walking quietly through, the street is taken by the beard by a ruffian well known to the police, who gives him a slash across the throat with a' knife, and then buries it up to the hilt in his body, averring when arrested that he was only amusing himself. Another paper speaks of an awful J murder having been apparently committed at the corner of Calles Florida and Parque. We saw the blood running down the gutter, and a horrid mass of it at the corner. For some inscrutable reason the vendors of milk are the favorite objects on which the assassins' practice their art. Murdering milkmen, says the Buenos Ayres Daily News, is now quite fashionable, and reflects little credit on the police authorities connected with our highways and byways.- A band of, ruffians, of whom it is not said that they have complained of the ' article dispensed by their victims, or that they are influenced by a misguided zeal in the cause of anti-adulteration, are said to make a constant practice of waylaying, robbing, and murdering all milkmen that they can catch unawares. In order to protect themselves while engaged in their livelihood, which seems to be even more in Buencs Ayres than in St. Pancras, the milkmen have formed themselves into caravans in order to save their throats and pockets, but whenever one or two straggle from the posse down pounce the cut-throats, and murder follows. The paper which records these outrages gravely adds that if this kind of thing is permitted to go on property will fall in value, and no one will care to live in a place infested with ruffians who are constantly robbing and murdering people in broard daylight. A nother paper, averring the number of robberies and outrages to be positively frightful, recommends all decent people not to go out after nightfall, or when they do so to gd T armed to the teeth.