Word: virgilino
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Fourteen years ago a young Brazilian, Virgilino Ferreira da Silva, persuaded the trusting Assembly of the State of Pernambuco to make him an honorary captain in its constabulary so that he might avenge his father who had been murdered in Pernambuco's hinterland. The Assembly made a mistake...
...Virgilino turned outlaw. He wore a bright red sombrero, glittering hornrimmed spectacles, and a gold-&-silver-studded cartridge belt that held four rows of shells, and was so broad that he could not bend at the waist. He killed so many men and stuck their decapitated heads on sharpened stakes that he was nicknamed Lampeao, "the Lamp Post." Hair by hair he pulled out sheriffs' beards. Dusky Brazilian virgins blanched at his reputation for rape. He would cut out the tongue of a woman who told him a lie. But whenever he raided a village he distributed...
From Pernambuco, Brazil, last week came word that Virgilino Ferreira da Silva. 34, "the John Dillinger of Brazil,'' had been shot in a brawl and died of his wounds. Better known as Lampedo (the lamp post), Brazil's John Dillinger has shot his way through back-country towns and ranches for 15 years. Two hundred Federal troops with machine guns and airplane scouts were unable to catch Lampeao, who delighted the country folk from time to time by free distribution of all the beer in town and by pulling out sheriffs' beards, hair by hair...
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