New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-10
AN ExEoUrIoN AT BRowNsv1LLE.

| From our Special Correspondent
| BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, June %, 1866.
This afternoon ] saw the execution of three
Mexicans, convicted of numbering persons in this
city, during Cortiuas raid on this side. in the wear
1853. As it was aterent style of execution
from any I had hitherto seen, l will give Won
brief account Of it.
From early morning dense crowd assembled as
near as possible to the prison. The mob was com.
posed chiefly Of MeXicans Of both sexes. and all
| colors and sizes.
This was an execution under the civil or erimi.
nal law OF the Statei the military had nothing to
do with it. But the sheriff, after summonine t0ge.
Their about 100 of the citizens of Brownsville was
well satisfied that that band could not resist an
attack Of the Mexican mob, if they should make
it, The great mass of the population in Western
Texas are native Mexicans, and believe thew are
in the majority in and around Brownsville. They
mortaly hate to see any of their countrvmen ma
matter what the crime, strung up by Americans
The sheriff, being well satisfied that rescue
was intended, applied to Gen. Getty for military
assistance, which was promptly rendered.
The prisoners left the prison, accompanied bv
priest, seated on their cofins in cart after the
usual fashion; escorted by Sheriff DYE, CITY Mar
shall John Price (of New 0rleans) and his one
hundred citizens, all well reyolvered and colored
troops all round, with triggers and bayonets ready
The gallows, stout and fresh with three stout
ropes dangling, stood in the prairie east Of the
CITY, ana was surrounded by the military thus a
hollow square about quarter of a mile wide. fonr
pieces OF artillery planted on the front side a
battalion of cavalry on the hind side and a reoi.
ment Of colored infantry on each Of the other
SIDES all equipped and ready for instantaneous
action And around all these pickets of cerbinaerg
with breech on thigh and thumb on hammer,
never expect to see surer thing than this exc
cution was The photographers, Who had been
pesterng and :, taking" the doomed men in prison
tIr Gays were yet on hand in carts with
IN the center OF the final coup d'gi5. Talk about
the "Jenkinses'' of the press The photographers
beat themby about thousand degrees.
The prisoners showed the full share of Mexican
or Indian GOODNESS and bravado They mounted
the scattold ninbly, and not being pinioned bowed
and waved their hats to the multitude. which CON
sisted OF all the military and all the population of
Brownsville.
shouted cut that it was all right he knew he was
to die, but that Cortina would have the blood of
every individual concerned in his death The
same man said, when on the scahold, that when
Americans came to be hung they cried and he
haged like babies but that Mexicans eonld die like
men, and he intended to show it, This alluded TO
Rogers the Ohio soldier who was recently hnng
crying and sobbmg like a child %
After the usual legal and priestly forms were
gone through with, the white CAPS were drawn
over the doomed mems heads, and the dron fell
The fall was about 6 feet Two of Them SWIM,
dead quietly, with broken necks. The third Flo
Tencia Cara, struck the edge of the platform 40
he fell, and after sustaining the weakened ierE If
the rope, raised one hand and then the other to |
the rope above MS head, and lifted himself mn a |
little. Ihe eHeeationer laid down on his belly on |
the platform, and reached down. and after a Sc |
we're struggle, wrenched the dying mans hands
from the rope, and pulled him up enough To read |
Just the noose Then be let him swing arain and t
ia minute Or two CARA was as quiet as his com
panions. a@g -
j, The scene was horrible, and drew groans from |
the multitude, At the gallows the thing was nm
IeF9one, Tor the three men we're hung nnpinioned
WHIST at the prison the thing had been overdone,
Lor the awkward blacksmith, in chopping of their
n1anacles with cold chisel, cruelty iaeerated I
looked upon this whole spectacle as an inter,
sstlsg evidence of the state of Soeiety on this |
1ofaef There were United States tn cops and am
I ny enough around that gallows tSp annhlate
VI me AIeXleans in Texas. The Mexican mob is
iot 10 pc trusted any more on this sides of the
IteE IMAM on me other. The large majority of
leAlcans are Indians of a very low class
EeSsers Poems, kagackers etc. as thew are calf I'd
y the WHITE people--and hardly ever distinguish I
leIhseiYes only IN the way of treachery coward. !.
le' ROBBERY, aud murder, ] seriously think thew
re nor ut Tor, and do not deserve, the beautiful
md they inhabit, 10,