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VASQUEZi* • 101in?etcallthlt;ClF(nre of a Koted California Brig- *and. ‘tcDUSketch of His Career.tinbuthifoifailThe Capture. ft'Way U)*» a* WoncUco 1 deIbout 6 o'clock last night DK. Smith arrived at. ;„fArm«hnn wlnrh infltinftn ShftnfTvitU information which Justified Sheriff bli£-Win sending a party to capture Yasquez. • ro- - *_i.A ~ I l:.f,3?n^Vlock last night the following-named hi: 2 ^re mounted for the expedition: Under* Sc FSrSbert S. Johnston, Maj. H. M. Mitchell, 1 ~ Frank Hartley, Sam Bryant, D. K.Pi Wi. Rodgers, and G. A. Beers. They .^Sicdtouie vicinity of Greek-George’s, on IrS*- Bneko, and cached themselves in a C2.ZVheio they hod a good view of the conn- . ^acd could not be seen themselves.DbIcth\Vlt;re^•-morning, movements were noticed on I of T1fnand the party m ambush kept the fc(ZSrf Greek George under view a?' 1 -Kfi About noon a party of Mexicans .,on horseback, and it was observed that a,wc the horses was a white one, which b,Sell recognized as the animal ridden by car*t-'-fiZ in his previous encounter with the di%u chief. One of the Mexican party started hlt;^ aid Mai- Mitchell hud two others went in slt;°t’Thev overhauled him and brought him 1 ft tk Bia name is Beales, and he protested Ms mmeaiitirae, the Sheriffs party saw a w coming along the road, and they 0i detour and ' captured it. They had it tl 55U m to the house, and approached it them- | 13 £\ea aider its cover. They then suddenly do- | o:Sored around the house. At a signal all rushed fa. Taaquez was in the kitchen and so mas ter-had the movement been earned out that ho tad not the slightest suspicion that he was in so a nshtons a position. ’ Ho had loft his arms iu S* tdjoinms room. As soon as he saw U20 d c^riffe partv enter he made a break for n the'Vifldow. ’At this instant half a* dozenis were leveled on him, and he was told to 0eSroir up his anna. Several shots were then o firei fiinultanecusly, wounding him in the arms i „ rdaear the heart. He then sank to his laiees' £ cd lifted his hands in token of surrender.. t itoa* thb time, another young fellow was cap- . ^ tarecL whose name is believed tobeLabrado. v indwbo joined theYasqne2 gang some time j ricce. He was taken without - resistance. Yas- | j cuez, wounded as he was, was placed on a mat-. cess'and carried to the wagon, and the crowdproceeded to the city. t _ I IIn a room adjoining the one wherein Yasquez a *s. captured was a large number of arms, con- j tiring of Henry and Spencer rifles, globe-night |; j ridea. double-barreled ehot-gune, and six- ffroutera. gThe Han tilt’* Career*Trcm the San Francisco Chronicle, May 15 Tiburcio Yasquez was born in Monterey, and dow about thirty-five years of. age. In hisjuth he attended the public school, and showed tdictious of intelligence superior to that oflost of his class. IBs parents were of the low-;; class, and he was reared in idleness, and be* uae a lazy, good-for-nothing fellow, following) occupation, but spending most of his time■cuad saloons and'other loafing places. Hooko and wrote English and Spanish, and was oked upon rather as a spoiled, worthless fel-t than as a desperado. However, he eply: :re!opeda sp'iit of lawlessness. Me divided a time between Los Angolea, Monterey, Petals and other places, and wa» engaged in sev-al lawless transactions. In August, 1857, ho.c*11.1bc;t to the state prison 3m Los Angeles, for grand larceny, for five aie, hut escaped Juno 25,1859. After his re-ise he came to San Francisco and remained ire a short time, associating with the worst *9 of Mexicans here; among others, with ja‘.'1b, who has recently been chief-lieuteuant hi* work of robbery and murder. Soon he. end his wav back to San Quentin, whore ho xived on Aug. 10, 1859, under commitment for. ie year, for grand larceny in Ainador County, aving served out his sentence and the reminder of his former sentence, he was dis-itrged • from i be prison on Aug. 13, 1803. At lat time Tomaso Rodundo, alias Porcopio, the oted outlaw, and an old compadro of Yasquez, let the latter. A band waB formed, with Pro-jpio and Yasquez asdeadara, and a magnificont rogrammeof plunder and. outlawry was map-ed out. The murder of the Frenchman at lea^anton is supposed to have been committed, y this combination, beingjpreceded and eucceed-d by BomoDAEISO BOBBERIES1 Santa Clara and Monterey Counties. Sheriff Iorse started out on their trail, and near Pan-oche, Monterey County, came upon them. He filed Juan Soto, one of the gang, but Procopio nd Yasquez escaped. Thinking the country was00 hot for them, they went to Mexico, but reamed almost immediately by steamer to San ‘rncisco. Here. Procopio remained, but Yas-;uez, taking a dislike to city life, loft for his afcive heath—the hills of the Coast Range and he solitude of Cantna Canon.. Procopio was sptnred in a restaurant in San Francisco shortly fterirard by Sheriff Morse, and is now serving nt a sentence in tlie State Prieon* On Jan* lo, 867. Tafaaucz once more arrived at the State hison, to serve out sentence of four- years for ;nmd larceny committed in ^Sonoma County. Ie was discharged June 11,18 lt;0.A KEW jdAND ORGANIZED.Yasquez did not long remain idle. A new nd was organized, with him as leader, hi ar-issa Rodriguez and Francisca Barzellaa being members. About two years ago they started on1 BTKtematio plundering expedition. The \ isa-tii* stage was stopped and the passengers cobbed near Soap Lake, and a number of menseveral houses robbed immediately aiter-waid. _Thomas McMahon, at present a leading mer-chintat Hollister, but then doing business m BuJtun* wm stopped by Yasquez on the San Juwi Hountaibs and robbed. The officers start-edin pursuit, and in Santa Cruz arrested Rodriguez, who was afterwards sent to the StatePrifioo, where ho died a few weeks ago, andkilled .Bxrzellas. Vasquoz laid low until*last cpring. iEBuing from his retreat, he came down on the San Benito, and rested for a while at the saloon of Jose Castro, an old friend. In a short time another new band was organized, and one day the inhabitants of Hollister were startled by a report that the San Benito stage and several men had been robbed. The citizens^ turned out en masse, and succeeded in catching Castro, who was summarily treated to a trial before Judge Lynch. Yasquez teemed to bear a charmed life, for all efforts to capture him re-Foitcd in complete failure. The next we hear of Yasquez is in connection with' ^ .THE X3BIKG EOBBEHT AT riEEBAUGH’s FEBBYand the robbery of the Twenty-nine-mile House between Gilroy and San Jose. Shortly after, he camo into Hollister at 10 o’clock at . night, and, after enjoying himself for a few houra at the Cat House, lelt, having received notice that the officers had scented him. He was in Hollister eeveri times, but his supposed desperate courage prevented a capture. The name of the bandit firet became notorious throughout the State in connection with 'THE TEES PINOS TRAGEDY,Dccurred early on the.evening of the 26tn ust last. This fearful crime filled the of the State with horror. The cixcum-i of this affair were as follows:17 o’clock in the evening two Mexicans 1 to Snyder’s store from tfao direction of te Valley and the New Idris imne. Dls-ng from their horses, they entered theicd engaged in conversation with John tb, Snyder’s clork. In a few momenta re rode up and dismounted. Three of ang—one of them being the noted0 Yasquez—remained on the out-tvbile the four others entered the eveled their pistols at the inmates and led them to lie down, after which all were y tied. Two little sons of L. C. Smith,1 in at this juncture, were ordered to lie One of them was tied, but the other wasto remain untied. The robbers then10 remain unucu. j.uo rough the store, appropriating all the i considerable clothing, provisions, _ andrm. _ .i* - Saav Am nr HIT inauo parties wu — • - •- ■,i searched, and their money, watches, rs taken. While this was going on in the aqaez vras inauguratingA CARNIVAL OF BLOODoutside. A Portugese eheep-h order, us Martin, who had put up his flock and d at Davidson’s Hotel, immediately ad-Snyder a store, not knowing tlie charao-be new-comers, attempted to enter:tho ut vras ordered to stop on the threshbold uez. The Portuguese, who oould not English, paid no attention to the order, cbed the steps when Yasquez fired a pm-which took effect in the herder’s mouth, him to falL Attempting to rise, be was rin through the left side of the neck, and istantly put an end to his sufferings. r, a teamster, who was on the road, was to lie down, and, on attempting to argue siion, was knocked down by a powerful ■om Yasquez’ revolver, and remained in a ' insensibility for some time.SOW BEDFORD WAS UITEDEREp. .50 Bedford, a teaaisfcer, at the time of the
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Chicago Daily Tribune
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sun, May 24, 1874
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