Like the big discoveries of the history of the science, what I will report the continuation also it was for the vicissitudes of the random.
Since I left said in the previous post, the anonymus investigator which I found at the AHPO spoke with me, coming to a mutual understanding. Every the one who spoke about his area, so, he spoke and spoke about the systems of file, of the jewels that shelters the archive in which we were, and even of the private files, which in Galicia is habitual that important documents for the study and memory of a country are spread in private collections.
Nevertheless, he said to me that although he was not sure, an antiquarian of Monterrei's region, who shows a good collection of historical documents, has in property something unpublished of Manuel Blanco Romasanta. Before post it had to verify if such find was true.
Today I run to the south ourensano with few signs that the assistant director had given me, antiquarian tried to locate it, which name I cannot publish.
It was not easy, but at the end. I find him, in the most improbable place, from that you do not expect so much about it. The antiquarian is a man of which doesn’t like the questions and with this look that we all saw at some time that debates between, basically, two actions observe looking but avoiding the looks.
Like many I found since i came to Europe; is distrustful, and suspects even of the recommendations of his colleague of the AHPO.
With distrust he confessed to me that he had documents related to Romasanta... Finally he agrees to reveal this great secret, after putting in touch with the Lycan Foundation, and to verify veracity of my verbal ones.
He took me up to his “palace", he entered in his deposit of antiques, and made me wait on the street. He went out carrying a bundle of papers little bigger than a sheet of paper, cutlery with caps of brown leather. They were all the notes that if they preserve (at leat this is said) of Caldeliñas's former Resort from 1817 up to its closing.
Caldeliñas's Resort is between the localities of Salgueiro and Caldeliñas, the two of Verín's municipality. Though in a beginning to his construction and exploitation it depended on a private company, in 1817 (year from what they begin the records of the antiquarian) passes to be an ownership of Verín's municipality. In 1859 it was declared of public usefulness, in order that hundred years later (in 1960) it stops working. The waters with those who if they were bathing those who hitherto were coming are of the fracture Corga, that the waters the most fluoraded waters of Europe. Monterrei is rich in waters, since in 94 km2 that has the region, there are 6 fountains of mineral water.
The most ancient documents were very damaged, due to the bad documentation and little professionalization of the owner of the files. Turning the pages little by little because of in some of the documents the ink made eliminate the paper, it is possible to see an account book with income and expenses, the budget items that the mayor was attributing him, an inventory of personal property, report of which should have used as book of visits, medical documents as those who were going to the resort to do them n affected of some strange cutaneous disease for which they had many tickets .
But the really interesting thing is that if they were preserving many of the tickets. These tickets were smaller than a current sheet of paper, in a paper with a smooth surface. They were headed by a name and it was followingby a chart with space for dates and treatments. If a client had more of one they were sewed slow of small book in the first years, already the last ones that if they preserve were stuck.
Manuel Blanco Romasanta was a very habitual client of Caldeliñas's aquiferous establishment. He would know the resort in one of the times that spent on the way to Laza in order to contribute the epistolary correspondence of the dead relatives that he itself was writing not to raise suspicions. Going to Chaves (Portugal), to 8 Km (5 miles) of Verín, to provide with goods.
The find is of such a magnitude, that I did not assimilate everything that there I saw. For bigger surprise, the dates were coincidental with that Romasanta confessed to kill the poor women that were reaching him.
Let's remember his way of proceeding in the crime:
Romasanta knew well the women that he killed, with that it was not difficult to convince them for a supposed prosperous future. He was speaking to them about a work that he found, normally in Santander, and he offered himself, previous payment, to do it of carrier. Once started the trip, when passing for San Mamede's Mountain, was coming to his unexpected end, murdering them with bloody methods.
For not being discovered, Manuel Blanco was staying away from those places where they knew it the days of rigor that was demanding the logic of the trip to Santander, and when finally he was appearing, was doing it carrying letters of which already he had killed, where they were speaking about their new and prosperous life.
It can only be demonstrated that these periods of absence them was taking advantage of the Sacauntos to take a few baths in the tepid waters to 24 ºC (75,20 ºF) of Caldeliñas, where, as if nothing had happened, he would had rest for the following victim, washing skin and conscience, and the one who knows, trying to treat of his "evil".
The antiquarian does not leave me reproduces the documents, for that once transcribed the information to my notebook of notes, I go away, satisfied of that, little by little, if they are peeling the lagoons of the case Romasanta, approaching the person and to his way of proceeding.
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