New-York daily tribune., 1850-05-02
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,br,ughout the cniire North. HONESTY.
Yours a. -
Tho Murders Of Snn MiSuci'
III. p,,,-s Uer,yld Of the 3J.h uls- pubhsAes TX
=. a from, q series of Sketches b. one OF the
,of the line OF bst,le..hi9 Otio," among which
y, find the iJlowing confession OF one ol 'he oe-
.....-, f-o-, that ship shot at Santa Barbara with
,,be-s. on the os h Of December, 1913, on ac-
- ~ 8 mos: rtrosious murder they had COM
- n. the Od Mission at San Miguel. The
n'.,;,als-s have never before been made known.
mnrler OF unusual atno>i,y was committed a
-, distance from here lately. The perpetrators
- three men " ho had deserted from tins shlp IN
Naxember Lost. AID two others. To throw more
Esb, os the subject, here give Lynchs confession
Nv name il Joseph l. nch | was born in the
Dokedom Of Hesse Darmssadt; my native town
!, Nauch ny age is % years; started ior the
s,la mines il company with three men, TWO amer
fan. sDd one Irshman named Mike: about three
,csts sec in the nighr, the one named Mike muir
S.rsd the TWO Americans TO get the gold that they
Ssd brnusbt with them to the mines; Nike then
..;S n me tha, i run he would shoot me pass
inc near Weaysrs Ranch | wished TO stop In or
der 10 work there but he told me if | stopped he
would murder me- We then divided the gold be.
tween us which we had taken from the murdered
men; arriving al the Mission Of St. Johns we bought
s,s men. three sailors lof whom two are now prs-
oners and one was killed in the light and two
marines; the three sailors left the marines at the
Mission 10. wishing 10 travel further with them,
and jc:ned rs we all came together TO the MISSION
of ST. Miguel; an Indian, named John. came on
with US from the VI ssOn of La Sodad; the three
sailors were on foot; about two or three mies tins
side O. the Mission Cf La Solidad we found two
old horses; two of the men that joined US mounted
fhcs,, b.,so pf Ia
only brought one to the NJ sson OF St Msuel.
1--WE arrived at St Miguel about OF clock in the
afternoon we got supper, and stopped there all
night; the next morning about o'clock we LETT,
and went about haH mile; it was very cold, the
wind blowing very hard; We sold thirty ounces OF
placer gold that we bad taken from the two men
we murdered To Mr.. Read He had been talking
70 us about his trip - the mines, saying that he had
more cold than his boy could Int; when we went
sbmt half mile we hated, and began disputing,
some saving that Real had good deal OF gold,
and il would be best TO take it; we then decided
b turn back, whi h We did and stopped there
al day. Daring the evening was talklngto the
prisoner QuiD about the idea oi robblng the eoid,
and he said that il was not right, and that was my
opinion al o; l wanted him 10 persuade them not TO
commit the robbery but he answered that II he
did they would BE- mad with him; during the eve
ming the rest came in, and tie man that was BAN
berry came IN and said, if we had been msn we
would be booking round
"About o'clock NJ. Read came into the room
and sat on bench by the FIRE. Bamberry was
standing behind him cutting some wood with an
ak he had in his handl to throw on the fire. he
stepped toward the FIRE and threw ON the wood,
and then walked back again behind Read. was
at the time filling my pipe; | asked Gum 10 give
me a coal of fire just he vas giving me the tire
/ be ard the blow Of an axe, struck by the man
Bamberry on Mr. Read he struck hln on the
head Read fell, and after he had iallen, Bamberry
struck him several times ca the head with the Ak
after this. the Indan stabbed him with knife;
Qun and ran out into The corridor after that, and
Nike and Bamberry brought US back again and
shut the door; Bamberry opened the door again
and told us 10 come on he then said there IS 10
backing out One man named Peter Remer went
into the kitchen and killed. The negro there with al
Ak This man is one OF the prisoners He then
returned and said 'come On
awe all then went towards Reads room Mike
opened the door; We had double-barreed gun
and an old cutlass Upon opening the door he said,
'Brsaos n0ches, .ScaOrItas, good night, ladies'
and they all went in but me- | ran out III the cor
ndor, and Mike after me, hO asked me where |
was going. / heard one of the women scream
when was raining, and Mike said to me = have
stabbed her with th.sswora. After this, they all
came outside the house, and as everything was
quiet they must oil have been killed THE persons
don't you shoot that Indian and be d-d to you,-
there was an old Indian in the other room lying by
the FIRE. told him the door was shut, and Remer
ssld 4 will soon open It, He gave the door a
hck and it few open. Bamborry then said TO me
ihoot him answered, Il can't cannot take
sight; he then raised ils sun and shot him. my
gun was i Ing on my arIo, and pulled the trigger
and i went of, bat | don't think the bali struck
near him.
Some time siter this occurred | cannot say
whether il was before or after we left the Mission,
heard the men say they pulled mn Indian boy from
under the bed. One Of ihem said hs had hard lie
-meaning he died hard. Mike then asked Quin,
tho wounded prisoner, how he hit him, and he an
swercd, he did not know how he struck him; B am
berry then SAID that Quin had split his head open
with AK. After this We went and drank some
wine in Reads room. Remer took sn ak and broke
open the chest where the money was they then
commenced breaking open the other chests and
uHing their contents, among other things Bamjerry
got q silver watch
About hafan hour afer the murder was com.
mli,ed we .cit the Mission about half q mile from
there, Rambeny threw the bag of silver dollars on
he ground, ing D-nthe stuff! 1t is too heavy
yoo fellows take your share to pack, and we con
u'icet BY and by Each ma then took a share
'opsck. After We LETT the Mission, we slept this
'ide Of the first rancho; the following night We
sep. near creek this side Of the mission OF St
LUIS. IL was here the ludi0n boy ran away,
bearing with him two silk shawls, a woman dress,
some ribbon, &c Do not remember any thing fur
ner until We got 70 q rancho, where We met dra-
goon, the mail driver. We had only four horses,
nener b Ing a loot. Near a ranche wo met a
sePsnsrd rldiog and driving two torses a head Of
eRn- Bsmbeny waited Hemer 10 shoot hun, in
:. aeer TO get Bis horses. bur Hcmer SAID: Do you
sahk Am id fOo', TO sboO: man in the settle
-en's But the spsniari went round bill. 50 the
Sspportunity wsslOsi Ncxtranche We stopped atwe
s0esht tour horses The following night passed |
loogh sauta Barbara about midnight and campcd |
s'N4' nile lie o,htr side Of Il. We started at |
..afse, snd went about four mdcs. and stopped at
,tehe' whore we fcd ourselves snd horses, aud |
~ yyasht Two bo;les Of squadicbte we fired of ono
" Our guns tnd reloaded the rest Of our firearms.
Az mere shout PM and bad Dot proce edod moro
plsoners" ~ '''"
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