Etiqueta: ibiza

  • Sus vecinos matan a 20 judíos por la Peste Negra sin intervención de las autoridades y con una respuesta bastante tardía por parte de Dios

    315. And it came to pass, in the year five thousand one hundred and eight, which is the second year of King Philip, there was a great plague, from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof; and there was no city which was too high for it, as it is written in the book of Emek Rephaim of Rabbi Chaim Galipapat. And there was a great cry from one end of the world unto the other, the like whereof never was. In the city which went out by a thousand, there were but one hundred left; and of that which went out by one hundred, only ten were left, at that time; and for one who died or was sick of the Jews, there died and sickened one hundred of the people of the land. And they clothed themselves with jealousy.

    316. In those evil days, there was no king nor prince. Were it not that the Lord was with us, there would not have been left of the Jews in the kingdoms of Aragon and Catalonia one spared or remaining. And they wickedly accused them with wrong accusations, and said, «Because of the wickedness of Jacob was this. They have brought the deadly poison into the world: from them came this great evil upon us.» And it came to pass, when they said this horrible thing, that the Jews feared greatly, and afflicted their souls with fasting, and cried unto God. And it was a time of misery, of grief, and of rebuke, unto the house of Jacob in that year. And it came to pass on the Sabbath-day, at evening, that they arose against them at Barcelona, and killed of them about twenty souls, and laid hands on the prey, and there was none to say, «Leave off.» While they were fighting, the Lord caused it to thunder and to rain an overwhelming shower and flames of fire; and our adversaries were amazed: the Lord confounded their speech. And the nobles and the great men of the city went and saved the rest from their hand; but did not retain strength to save them from the thunder and rain; for they were many who rose up against them, and said, «Let us destroy them from being a nation. The Lord do good unto those that are good, and as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, may the Lord lead them forth with the workers of iniquity!» Amen.

  • Crimen de los Existencialistas

    Americans Sentenced in Spain

    BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – A Spanish civil court sentenced four Americans, a Spanish woman and a British girl to long prison terms today [1964/03/16] for the robbery-murder of a Barcelona furniture dealer.

    THE SENTENCES were:

    • James Bell Wagner, 23, of Union Beach, N.J., 30 years;
    • Mrs. Maria del Pilar Alfaro Velasco, 32, Spanish mother of two daughters, 23 years;
    • John Joseph Hand, 40, Southfield, Mich., and James Stephen Johnston, 30, Bluejacket, Okla., 21 years each;
    • Mrs. Nancy Karen Hand, 25, Detroit, Mich., 12 years and one day.
    • Joan Douglas Bryder [Bryden?], 22, a British librarian, 6 years.

    The prosecution had asked the death penalty for Wagner and the Spanish woman, 20 years for Hand and Johnston, 12 years for Mrs. Hand and six years for Miss Bryder.

    Court attaches said the prison terms would be cut at least in half by an amnesty which Generalissimo Franco ordered upon the election of Pope Paul VI and a second amnesty expected April 1 in connection with the 25th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War.

    The six prisoners were arrested after the slaying Nov. 17, 1962, of Francisco Robirosa, 50, in his shop. The crime netted only $33 in loot.

    Wagner admitted he entered Robirosa’s shop to rob the man. The prosecution contended the Spanish woman planned the crime and the others were accomplices.

    BECAUSE OF THE defendants’ admissions of illict relations, of the use of drugs, and of other activities, the case was called by Spanish newsmen «The Trial of the Existentialists.»

    The prosecutor described all six defendants as drifters who lived by their wits.

    Wagner, a deserter from a U.S. Army Signal Corps battalion in Germany, and petite Maria del Pilar Alfaro escaped the death sentence – and execution by Spain’s garrote – because there was no proof of premedidation in Robirosa’s murder, the court indicated.

    More than 1,500 persons jammed the old provincial courtroom to witness the sentencing.