Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-06-12

neighbors gathering, and suspecting their
object, attempted to fly. Three were ar
rested before they got fairly started anoth-
er only ran few hundred Yards before he
was overtakeB, but the fifth led the arrestlng
party chase of over ten miles He was
finally captured and brought back, and the
whole we're put under close confinement
/ They were questioned separately as TO where
they obtained the cattle, and each told DIFF
ierent story The gentlemen were then
sent for whose brands were on the stock.
aud on IheIr arrival, they not only identified
the cattle as property stolen from them, but
also the horses upon which the robbers
were driving them Off The whole party
were identified as a gang of robbers who
have Infested this valley for over a year.
A Jury Of twenty citizens were summon
ed To try the accused, who, after a patient
examination Of the case, pronounced them
guilty, and left their punishment to the vote
Of the people OF the neigAbofhood. Fifty
men were present, who unanimously voted
IN favor OF immediate execution, and TWEEN
ty-four hours were allowed them to prepare
During this time they made each a conles-
sion, acknowledging that they were enga-
ged for some time past in robbing the ram
ches of the valley They also acknowledge
ed their sentence Just, aud stated that they
were employed by a band of white men,
One of the prisoners was the rGqnero of the
notorious Z" jim Beckwith." they gave
their names as Ramon Dlas, of IIermosillo,
Timoteo Sandoval, Luis Cracia, Francisco
Galyez, and Jesus Moreno, of Mazatlan,
Mexico.
On Monday morning at 10 O'Clock, the
prisoners were conducted, strongly bound,
IN a wagon, TO the gallows which had been
prepared for the purpose, the ropes were
tied 90 the cross beam, aud after bidding
some Calilornians ddios, who we're in the
crowd, they themselves gave the signal for
the wagon to drive on, aud IN another mo-
ment they we're all five dangling in the air,
where they are yet swinging. The whole
affair, our informant says, was conducted
with due soemnity and decorum, and the
citizens appeared determined, to a man, to
take upon themselves the responsibility oil
Kidding their valley Of these outlaws.
They were hung near the fork of the
road, in the immediate neghborhood Of the
lagoon, and very close to Charley Horton 5
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LYNcmNG AT MoKELuMNE HILL.--We
learn the following interesting intelligence
from letter, dated at Mokelumne Hill,
Calaveras County, on the 9th:
"rwo brothers. VIM. aud John McMer.
trie, from Maine, pretended to have lost
from II to 30 ounces in gold dust, and
charged a man named Samuel H. Martin
with being the thief, and under pretense OF
going before a Justice, they started off for
the river. As soon as they got out of camp
they stripped bin to the skin, tied his ex-
tended arms to tree, and beat hun unmer-
eilully. No, coricnt wiih this, they hang
him until he was nearly dead, To make him
disclose. They let hun down, but he told
nothing. They were about hanging him
again, saying with an oath that they would
finish him this time, when some one passing
interrupted them Their money was sub.
sequently found in their own I'll. They
Immediately left, aud the friends of Mr.
Martin are IN pursuit of them Marln is
laying IN precarIous situation. - Sacra
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