Buenos Aires "Standard", April 26th, 1881
The Naranjito Murder
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The Naranjito Murder
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With much pleasure we publish the following telegram from the Governor of Corrientes to the President of the Republic, in reply to the President's message sent the moment His Excellency discovered that the crime was committed in Corrientes. The message in question is fully corroborated by two letters we give at foot, and for which we are much indebted to the kind attention of Mr. McCorquodale, station at Naranjito on the Eastern Argentine Railway.
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Corrientes, 24th April, 1881
To the Most Excellent President of the Republic.
I have received Your Excellency's telegram; The Gefe Politico of Caseros announces the capture of one of the assassins of the British subjects, and is in active search of the others, as ordered by this Government the first moment it heard of the crime. I can assure your Excellency that I heartily condemn those crimes, and while I cannot possibly prevent them, I am determined to have them severely atoned for.
I fully appreciate our position and credit, and will leave no stone unturned to guarantee life and property.
I salute your Excellency
A.B. Gallino
To the Most Excellent President of the Republic.
I have received Your Excellency's telegram; The Gefe Politico of Caseros announces the capture of one of the assassins of the British subjects, and is in active search of the others, as ordered by this Government the first moment it heard of the crime. I can assure your Excellency that I heartily condemn those crimes, and while I cannot possibly prevent them, I am determined to have them severely atoned for.
I fully appreciate our position and credit, and will leave no stone unturned to guarantee life and property.
I salute your Excellency
A.B. Gallino
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Naranjito, Corrientes, April 22nd. 1881
To the Editor of "The Standard"
I have just seen in your paper of 19th April, where it is given out that the murder of Macdonald and Guthrie was in Entre Rios, it is not so, they lived in Corrientes.
It may be of some service to you from what I personally know, that the Gefe Politico in Monte Caseros, Sr. Casco, has exerted himself in every way possible and is still doing so, to find out the murderers; he has not left a moment day or night, since the murder, in searching every corner, and I learn that he has taken about thirty prisoners.
To-day I hear that he had staked out a man yesterday, and he confessed that the chief was a brother of the "capataz" of Macdonald and Guthrie; and this man the capataz they had discharged some weeks before: this has to be corroborated by further proofs yet, but Casco is labouring like a good Briton, in this affair, and also Juez de Paz of Monte Caseros told me that he would offer a reward of $500. to anyone who would discover who had been the assassins.
As you truly say, this crime comes at a bad moment, when Dean Dillon has just gone home to foment emigration to this country, and Macdonald and Guthrie told me that others were to follow them here to settle down, now this will put a scare on English coming here. The Province of Corrientes is a splendid one in rich camps, either for sheep or cattle, and a most magnificent one for agriculture.
If I learn anything new, and you should careto be acquainted with it, I shall be proud to let you know.
J.F.M.C.
P.S.
I forgot to mention in my letter that three days after the murder of our countrymen, within three or four squares a "Tropero" (Brazilian) was attempted to be assassinated also, by his own Peon, while lying down and serving mate.
The Peon gave him two shots behind and luckily that the Comisario was at the house of Macdonald and galloped over, if not the man was killed: the Peon was captured, but not before he was nearly hacked to pieces.
I have no more time, train hour.
Yours truly,
J.F. McCorquodale
I have just seen in your paper of 19th April, where it is given out that the murder of Macdonald and Guthrie was in Entre Rios, it is not so, they lived in Corrientes.
It may be of some service to you from what I personally know, that the Gefe Politico in Monte Caseros, Sr. Casco, has exerted himself in every way possible and is still doing so, to find out the murderers; he has not left a moment day or night, since the murder, in searching every corner, and I learn that he has taken about thirty prisoners.
To-day I hear that he had staked out a man yesterday, and he confessed that the chief was a brother of the "capataz" of Macdonald and Guthrie; and this man the capataz they had discharged some weeks before: this has to be corroborated by further proofs yet, but Casco is labouring like a good Briton, in this affair, and also Juez de Paz of Monte Caseros told me that he would offer a reward of $500. to anyone who would discover who had been the assassins.
As you truly say, this crime comes at a bad moment, when Dean Dillon has just gone home to foment emigration to this country, and Macdonald and Guthrie told me that others were to follow them here to settle down, now this will put a scare on English coming here. The Province of Corrientes is a splendid one in rich camps, either for sheep or cattle, and a most magnificent one for agriculture.
If I learn anything new, and you should careto be acquainted with it, I shall be proud to let you know.
J.F.M.C.
P.S.
Naranjito, April 22nd. 1881
I forgot to mention in my letter that three days after the murder of our countrymen, within three or four squares a "Tropero" (Brazilian) was attempted to be assassinated also, by his own Peon, while lying down and serving mate.
The Peon gave him two shots behind and luckily that the Comisario was at the house of Macdonald and galloped over, if not the man was killed: the Peon was captured, but not before he was nearly hacked to pieces.
I have no more time, train hour.
Yours truly,
J.F. McCorquodale
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