Spanish views from a small town

From The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes: 'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight, But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, Then look for me by moonlight, Watch for me by moonlight, I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.' That ballad is a romantic conception of a highwayman, a bandolero . Though, by the time it was published in 1906, highwaymen had disappeared from Scottish and English roads. But not from the Spanish roads. One of the last bandoleros was from Galicia, Mamed Casanova, better known as Toribio, from a small parish in the township of Mañon. In 1900 he and his friends assaulted the parish priest's house and one of the group shot the housekeeper when she recognized them. After two years on the run, Toribio was tricked into accepting a dinner invitation and caught. At first he was condemned to death, but the king l...