The Watchmaker of Creixell This morning I went to a house that was owned by a famous character Empordà the late nineteenth century. It happened for me his story because he had heard, but did not know exactly.
The Watchmaker of Creixell he was a bandit act Empordà land during the third Carlist war. When they run to the sandy Onyar in Girona in 1882, was accused of nearly a score of murders, plus numerous robberies. Plan a work he wrote ameníssim mix of reportage and historical essays. Among the puzzling aspects of the personality of the watchmaker, was interested in the plan, especially to discover the causes that led to an artisan of good reputation, more frequent visitor of the families honorable in the region, and to fix the clocks kept running to become a criminal who had feared the involvement of a network of informers. Plan discards political motivations: the clock was a conservative spontaneous, without sympathy or federal Carline. Its bloody trends, however, would have found a place conducive to manifest itself in the situation of anarchy and disorder that crossed the entire region since the 1868 revolution until the Restoration. One of the Watchmaker's favorite phrases was "the dead do not speak."
seems to catch him during a robbery, while the tenants murdered a house, a girl was inside a closet and admitted making the police know.
The main contributor was the Little Pins (neighborhood near Camallera), Cal Little, a farmhouse near the road to Vilopriu Camallera. Was executed with his head. The meetings were to prepare for the misdeeds of Malpàs Vinardell Can a farmhouse Valldevià also near Vilopriu.
is clear that Plan took into account what has happened in more recent times. As he acknowledges, "after the last civil war, the issue of crime, I was presented in terms of a permptorietat. Not being a moralist, a plan was interested less crime in general the appearance of the individual criminal, and simplifying the maximum, set up a simple typology. There are two kinds of criminals: those who are by nature and "the ending here because the social or political situation that gives a certain feel of impunity." Plan seems inclined to think that the watchmaker was Creixell this second class, but could not make it because the news about the character were already scarce and vague when it began its investigation, and found more with a curious propensity to ' Omerta, the law of silence among those who gave evidence of having heard something (seventy years after the death of the villain!).
Reducing even more, we could talk, and that is very current, the "monsters" and "opportunistic." The Watchmaker, background, participated in the two conditions. I am of the opinion that, in general, and thankfully, the opportunists abound more than the monsters that is, the perpetrators of evil for evil. The rest is only a matter of skill. Certainly the clock was working. Otherwise, even anarchy, not explained the durability of the criminal action of the robber.
Plan s'esglaia not the end of the watchmaker. It was somehow end sung. Josep Pla understood that he was in favor of capital punishment, with particularity: that reus were spiritually assisted by the Confraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In this way, supposedly, there was always the possibility of repentance and, therefore, of salvation, not earthly but eternal. Sad consolation, in my opinion, for those convicted, who had already done.
Luckily my friend is very good person, with this background it gets to be any watchmaker.