Chapter 39 Chapter 19 The Tijuca Murder

As soon as the judge arrived at the execution ground, the entire escort team stood still.The shouts that shook the sky kept ringing around him, this is the voice of everyone from the bottom of their hearts: Not guilty!Not guilty! Then there was silence.Everyone doesn't want to miss a word about the upcoming announcement. Judge Jarrigates sat down on a stool surrounded by Mina, Benito, Manoel, Fragoso, and Joam.Da Costa hugged Yaquita to his chest. The judge had previously written out the last paragraph of the document in numbers, and based on these numbers, he clearly wrote the real letters, replaced the cipher letters, and then segmented words, sentences, and then Start reading aloud.

In the silence, he read: The real murderer who stole the diamonds and murdered the escorting soldiers on the night of January 22, 1836 was not the unjustly sentenced to death Joam.D'Acosta, but me, a clerk in the diamond mine administration; yes, I alone, and here I sign my real name, Ortega. The reading did not end, and the endless cheers went straight to the sky. Indeed, nothing could be more convincing than that.A paragraph at the end of the document summarizes the whole text, categorically acquitting the owner of the Iquitos estate, who saved from the gallows the victim of this terrible injustice!

Joam.Surrounded by his wife, children, and friends, Da Costa couldn't hold the hands that were extended to him.Although he has a strong character, facing this situation, he couldn't help crying with joy, and at the same time, he was full of gratitude, thanking God for miraculously saving him at the last moment of execution, and thanking God for not letting him go. Human beings have committed heinous crimes of killing innocent people by mistake. Yes, Joam.Da Costa is innocent, the evidence is conclusive, beyond doubt!The real culprit of the Tijuka murder confessed to his crime and told the whole story of the crime!Judge Jarry Gates has just deciphered all the documents using cipher numbers.

The following is Ottoga's confession. The villain is Joam.Da Costa's colleague, like him, is also an employee of the Tijuca Diamond Mine Management Office. This young man was assigned to go to Rio de Janeiro with the escort team. The exact date of Tijuka was given to the smugglers. When waiting in Vera.When the bandits outside Rika attacked the convoy, he pretended to resist with the soldiers of the convoy, and then fell down among the dead and was carried away by his accomplices.So the only soldier who survived the massacre can be sure that Ottoga was killed in the struggle. But the theft did not bring much to the criminal, and he was soon robbed by his fellow criminals.

Ottoga had nothing to return to Tijuca, so he wandered through the northern provinces of Brazil and fled to the upper Amazon region, where the forest guards were.In order to survive, Ottoga joined this not-so-dignified team.In the team, no one asked him who he was or where he came from. In this way, Ottoga later became the captain of the forest and began to arrest people for a long time. During this period, the adventurer Torres broke his livelihood and became his accomplice, and he and Ottoga had a close relationship.But as Torres said, the villain grew to feel guilty.The memory of the crime terrified him, and he knew that someone else had suffered in his place and was sentenced to death!He knew that this person was his colleague Joam.Dacosta!And Joam.Dacosta has been living a life of fear and is in danger of being executed at any time!

However, a few months ago, during an expedition into Peru, Ortega happened to come near Iquitos, where he recognized JoamGallard is Joam.Dacosta, but Joam.D'Acosta did not recognize him. Therefore, he decided to do his best to make up for the injustice suffered by his old colleagues.He wrote a document giving all the facts of Tijuca's murder; but it is known that the document was in ciphered text, because he intended to give it to the owner of the Iquitos estate, together with the deciphered numbers. His sudden death did not allow him time to complete this mission of redemption.Ottoga was seriously injured in an encounter with a black Madeira, and he felt that he was going to die.At that time, his companion Torres was by his side, and he believed that he could tell this friend the secret that had been kept in his heart for a lifetime.He gave Torres the document he had written in his own hand, and made him swear that it must be handed over to Joam.Da Costa's hands.He took Joam.Da Costa told Torres his name and address, and when he was about to die, he said the number 432513.Without this number, this document would be absolutely incomprehensible.

Ortega is dead, and the reader knows very well how the vile Torres accomplished his task, and how he used the secret to do dirty work and profit from it. Torres failed, so he brought this secret to Hades.But Fragoso brought back the name of Ortega, which was the signature on the document, and finally helped Judge Jarry Gates decipher the code with amazing insight. Yes!This is the physical evidence that everyone is looking for, and this is the proof that Joam.The conclusive evidence of Dacosta's innocence can finally save his life and restore his reputation! When the esteemed judge read aloud the appalling story recorded in the document, the cheers became even more deafening.

From then on, Judge Jerry Gates had reliable evidence in his hands. He had obtained the consent of the Chief of Police and wanted to temporarily use his apartment as Joam.Da Costa's cell. It didn't take much trouble, Joam.Accompanied by his family, Da Costa was carried to the judge's house rather than being taken to the judge's house like a victor. The upright owner of the Iquitos manor has suffered a lot in his long-term fugitive life, and now he is finally getting his reward.If he is very happy because of this, it is mostly for his family rather than himself. He is also proud that his country did not lead to such a big unjust prison in the end.

And while all this was happening, what happened to Fragoso? Oh, the lovely lad has been embraced by many!Benito, Manoel and Mina hug him desperately, and Lina is no exception!Everyone scrambled to talk to him, he didn't know who to listen to, and he tried to explain that it was just an accident that he deserved it!Was he to be thanked for recognizing Torres as a forest captain?Of course not.As for his idea of ​​going to the forest guard where Torres was alive, it didn't seem to be able to turn the situation around. He didn't even know how valuable the name Ottoga was at the time!

Well done Fragoso!Whether he wanted to admit it or not, he was the one who saved Joam.Dacosta's life! From this point of view, how amazingly one thing after another is connected, and finally converges on one point: Fragoso was rescued when he was exhausted and dying in the Iquitos forest. The owner of the Quitos estate took him in enthusiastically; he met Torres on the Brazilian border, and Torres boarded the big raft. In addition, Fragoso had seen Torres somewhere before. Well, yes!Finally, Fragoso exclaimed, all happiness should not be attributed to me, but to Lina! credit me?The half-race girl asked in surprise.

Yes, maybe so?Could I have made so many people happy without your idea of ​​following the vine? How Fragoso was congratulated and loved by this righteous family and their adversary at Manao need not be told. But didn't Judge Jarry Gates take any credit for Zhao Xue's grievance?It is true that even with the ingenuity of an analyst, he could not decipher the document. No one could understand the document without the deciphered number.Without him, with the name of Ottoga alone, who could have calculated a number known only to the murderer and Torres? Therefore, it is indispensable to thank him! Needless to say, the details of the case were sent to Rio de Janeiro that same day, together with the original version of the document and the number of deciphered documents.Just wait for new instructions from the Ministry of Justice, and the new instructions will undoubtedly order the immediate release of the prisoner. So, Joam.The D'Acosta family had to stay in Manao for a few days;D'Acosta and his family would say goodbye to their master, and without fear, they would continue their boat down the Amazon to Belem, where at the end of the journey Mina and Manoel, Lina and Fragoso are about to get married as planned before departure. Four days later, on September 4, the release order was issued.The document was confirmed not to be forged.It was indeed the handwriting of Ortga, an employee of the diamond mine management office at that time. There is no doubt that this detailed confession was written entirely by him. Vera.Ricard's death row prisoner was finally acquitted, legally officially given to Joam.Da Costa is rehabilitated. On the same day, Judge Jarry Gates met Joam on the big raft.Dinner with the D'Acosta family.When it was dark, the family shook hands with him one by one; they agreed to see each other again, Joam.The D'Acosta family agreed that they would visit the judge in Manao when they returned, and they also invited him to visit the Iquitos estate in the future. The next day, on the morning of September 5th, at sunrise, the flute played and Joam.The Dacosta couple and their children are all standing on the deck of the big raft.The big raft lifted anchor and began to enter the channel. When the big raft disappeared at the bend of the Negro River, the cheers of the residents of the city gathered on the river bank were still echoing in the air for a long time.