Connecticut western news., 1875-04-23
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 A BANDITS WARNING.
Tue Advice Given to Parents by Vasquez, the Noted California Bandit. on the ScafOld. '.' -

The Advice Given to Parents by Vasquez
 the Noted California Bandit. on the ScafOld. '- '-' '. .' .'- " |. Tiburcio Vasquez was bandit. He
 and his band ravaged at will several o1 the lower counties of California. In the
 wild, free, Andalusian life of Los
 Angeles and Santa Clara, these brigands
 found ample room and verge enough fol
 exploits whose recital takes us back to
 the medieval times, when robber barons
 and predatory knights 7swooped down
 upon the plains and valleys, and bore
 away to their mountain fastnesses the
 spoil of beauty and pef An adven-
 tutous and romantic career was that of
 Vasquez and his company. Their ex-
 ploits have furnished forth material for
 cheap novels and "blood- and thunder ; 4 dramas. They stole, ravaged, burned, plundered,1 and murdered in that gay
 and cdashing q n1annef which fascinates
 callow youth, and sets romantic maidens
 to signing, for, "such a man." The
 country through which these bandits ranged is thinly populated, ranches and
 trading posts dotting at long intervals the vast treeless plains which lie between woody hills and mountains cleft by
 
 these precious rasca1s defed the law,
 and subsisted on country, laid under contribution as thoroughly as Mexico
 was under Cortez. Mothers scared their children into silence with the name of Vasquez, and young men toiling in the vineyard or sultry, glebe, looked at the riders on the mountain side, half in fear a,o I I,o1G <1, SoR 1>
 dit bore @ charmed life. He was thought invulnerable. No bullet ever reached him, and no deputy sheriff came near enough to see the color of his horse.
 In an evil hour for the young robber, he fell into the tolls and was captured, tried, convicted, and hanged by the neck until he was dead. The bold, dashing, handsome cabdllerO died the death of dog. He carried himself with ightness and jolly recklessness to the scaffold; but when he was hanged, no man in the throng that looked at his taking off la- mented his ignoble end. The general verdict was, Served him right" And so it did The night before this wretch was hanged, he asked to see his coffin It was shown him. He read curiously the inscription which set forth that he died '''to-morrow," and he felt the lining tenderly, saying: "I shall sleep long and well here" Y" Then he .discoursed of that silent land into which he was to travel, saying, with somo show of seriousness, that he was not sure of an eternity. z" The sages say there is one," he re- marked, with 8 shrug of the shoulders; and he added that if there were an eternity of life, he should meet all his sweethearts next day. Knitting his brows, he. dictated an address which he wished directed "To fathers and mothers of children This singular document began thus: "Standing at the portals of the unknown and unknowable world, and looking back upon the life of this, as I have seen it, I would urge upon you to make your greatest care to so train, instruct, and govern the young to whom you have given life, that they be kept aloof, as far as in the nature of things is possible, from the d. grading companionship of the i'm moral and vicious. The general welfare of society depends upon the strict per forrnance of this part of your duty"
 This was the bandits homily and To his former associates he dictated an equally unique address, in which he deprecated their reputed in tention to make bloody reparation for his death, and bade them to take warning by his fate and change their course, while life was left him. On the following day, accompanied by priest who bade his beads and battered prayer, the brigand chief stepped lightly to the fatal tree, joked about the dread hereafter, told the hangman to be quick about it, and so was launched into eternity. !