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Newspaper
Logansport Herald
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1838
Page
4
The New Orleans Bee cites a document from Themis detailing a Mexican gang’s rule book. Forty articles describe overthrowing virtue, severing family ties, cruel discipline, and lifelong duty under threat of death to protect the fraternity. Pennsylvanian.
The New Orleans Bee discusses a translated document titled Constitution of the Robbers of this Capital found on a companion of the outlaw Chatu Lindo. The text outlines a formal Mexican gang structure with a Grand Consistory, regiments, oaths, funds, and strict secrecy to defy authorities and regulate members. It depicts a organized brigand group aiming to infiltrate and corrupt police and officials.
The text outlines cruel rules for a prisoner council, promising death to informants and demanding loyalty. It portrays a secretive code aimed at evading judges and elevates wealth, pleasure, and fearless zeal as essential to the group.
The subscribers in the upper Wabash country advertise a broad fall and winter assortment from New York and other cities. Dry goods include cloths in many colours and qualities, cassimere, pilots cloth, satinetts, merinos, prints, flannels, sheeting, fureapes, collars, yarns, socks, shawls, veils, edgings, silks and satins, cambray, ginghams, batting, candlewick, yarn, jeans, linsey, and more.
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