Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-01-30

and never perhaps had he appeared more completely
master of HIMSELF than the day when he appeared
before his judges.
Scarcely had he taken his place on the prisoners
bench, when Antonio to seat himself there with
six other accomplices whose arrest had taken place.
By movement either voluntary intentional, Yanez
recoiled with disgust, and without saying word,
fixed upon this false brother, who had betrayed his
chief to the executioner, without having for his
information the excuse of his own interest,"
look so full of whitening contempt and Indignation,
that Antonio, Supplied, stammered forth uninte
lgibe replies to the pressing nterrogatories of the
judge turned pale then red and striking the bar with
his clenched hand, angry replied, 81 will say nothing,
know nothiDg-my life Is yours, take it, Yanez
believed himself saved. He did not know that the
package by the clerk So he confined himself to
scornfu denials, and when Colonel Calvo displayed
the enormity of the crimes imputed to him, holding
him forth robber chief, an assassin, planning
murder. and from afar putting In motion the hands
which executed ii, Yanez replied by a cold smile
to these terrible words Then don Jose Calvo exhibited
the fatal papers This was like thunder-bolt. The
doubt which had seized the minds of the Judges gave
place to deep conviction The sentence of the Court
Martial, given amidst profound silence, DOOMED
Yanez and his accomplices TO death. shrek,
the thrilling anguish of which no words describe
followed the reading of the sentence. As to Yanez
he preserved all his firmness. "DIan condemns, and
God absolves :" said he; and rising he saluted his
judges.
Three tays after countless multitude composed of
Leperos and Indians thronged the plain which the
instruments of punishment had been erected. An
altar was placed at the right Of the scaffold. The
balconies on those streets which led TO the place were
filed with high-born danes among whom it was easy
to distinguish Dona Dolorez by her beauty and her
paleness.
Very appeared party CT alguazils in black
robes with heavy carbines preceding " the Brother
hood of the Dying" A capuchin, bare-footed, girt
about by rope, reciting with low voice the peniten-
tial psalms, walked Antonio and the other
prisoners, each of which had crucix in his hands.
Yanez who had tainted when leaving the prison, was
borne mule, led y of the inferior officers.
As this frightful train approached, Dona Dolorez
convusivey pressed between her fingers the beads of
her rosary, and when it passed beneath her balcony,
she leaned her head the balustrade, gazed
anxously on her lover and remarking his fixed eyes
and marble like countenance, exclaimed with burst
of wild joy
'No, Yanez. the executioner shall never touch
thee living" Then drawing from the folds of her
Dress poignard she raised her strike herself
with it, when her husband, grave, steri man, who
standing behind her, had observed with attention every
movement, grasped her arm, saying coldly you have
the right to lve-now that he is dead"
Yanez had been poisoned that very morning with
one of those quick poisons well known to the
Mexican Indians, which kill almost instantaneously
This the last proof of love, which he had received
from Dolorez. His corpse nevertheless carried
upon the scaffold before Antonio who submitted tc
his fate with marvellous intrepidty. They say tina
Santa Anna, who did leave his palace during tn,
whole day, initiating Louis Kill, said to Genera
Valencia, pointing to the sky, dark with falterine
clouds
"Our dear Yanez will have unpleasant weather t.
die in.''
By means of considerable sum, Dona Dolore
obtained permission of the archbishop to have the bod
of Yanez buried in the garden of San Fernando.