Stories of Paraná - Killing in the backcountry

Stories of Paraná - Killing in the backcountry

Killing in the backcountry
Ivo Nalce

By the late '50s, and even a little more, the region Tibagy, Reserve, lived in fury bandit allies, or generated from politicians. Banditry raged promoted by the heads of politicking site.
Morning of Tuesday, January 6, 1930, Carlos Soebel opens the warehouse Orlando Soare See the back window broken into footprints of many people and about six contos in stolen goods.
Who was it who was not? The boy Gabriel unravels the mystery: was the band of his boss Gabriel Bueno da Cunha, called the "Lantern of our hinterland." To prove brought some stolen items and reports that the gang is hiding Paved, two leagues from the city.
The delegate Joaquim Carneiro will not, but sends the cable Angelo Fultert and the soldier José Santos (all reserve police force) in search of the bandits.
Will volunteer civilian Abilio Barbosa. The boy Gabriel is attached to show the hideout.
Knowing that the band is numerous, the lawyer Mario Santos will call for reinforcements to Ponta Grossa.
Time passes and nothing Hunters bandits return to the city, the night falls.
On the morning of Wednesday, the boy Gabriel returns and tells what happened: ^ When they arrived near the lair of the bandits, the cable Angelo sends the boy stay behind waiting for reinforcements.
After a while Gabriel hears the shooting, has over twenty shots.
Hiding in the bush where overnight, morning peeps and has five bodies stretched on the floor.
Reservation residents are horrified at the story of the boy.
Popular Paved and go to "Lantern" did not let anyone get close and warns that kills whoever comes.
Police reinforcements requests do not appear, police in Ponta Grossa wanted to pay three hundred thousand reis for the transportation of troops, five hundred drivers wanted to meddle in their trucks mud road only one day of heavy rain.
In Reserve, the pharmacist José Andrade, seeing that they could not rely on law enforcement, armed and meets some locals decide to attack the flock of Gabriel Bueno da Cunha.
Front will the pharmacist and two men with Winchesters, just behind comes ten men armed with handguns.
When you arrive at the barn where they were bandits, Gabriel Bueno da Cunha and three henchmen surrender without resistance.
They say that the head was another famous bandit of the region, Major Salvador.
Salvador is dead in bed yet as the 38 in hand, beside the woman Colac.
In the paddock in front of the barn, in the mud in the rain, the bodies of the cable Angelo and civil Abilio Barbosa. The body of the soldier José Barbosa is not found.
José Barbosa will appear later in the story who fled at the time of the shooting.
The reinforcements finally arrive Ponta Grossa, 15 soldiers.
The corpses are taken to reserve, tied on the backs of horses.
Performed the autopsy, it appears that the cable and civilian were killed with shots to the back.
Actually, what happened during the shooting? No one can explain.
An unsolved mystery of the many mysteries of a region of Paraná where banditry prevailed protected by politicking.

Ivo Nalce historian


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.