The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-02-10
A sANGUINARY OUTLAW.
! Cnrlist Chief Guilty Of Fifty
Murders,

This Spanish correspondent OF .he
London Times writes: The Csrlist Chief
tain. JerRon, has jnst been tried before
Colonel Sanchez, ut Pamptluns, and is
to be- led out to execution tomorrow at
dsybr-ak. This man was Lieutenant OF
the Carlist band commanded by the now
famous Rosa Samaniego, and his name,
like that Of his Captain and Lozino, ex.
ecu'ed two years since, and the famous
Terror. whose death by the Civil Guards
rifis On his march to prison chroDicled
in your columns last Spring. has long
been by word to strike terror into the
hearts oi the peacable Inhabitants OF
Ecali. EST liza and Mnrieta. The muir
ders proved against him number twenty
or twenty five, but the numbAr of which
he was guilty may be placed at double
that.
Jergon's career Of crime commenced in
January, 1873. with an Improved crime.
In April OF the same year, on the l0.h
day. he stabbed. for lust OF blood. lame
old man named Pedro Muptta, in the
neighborhood of Muriets. The old man
waz harmless cripple.
Every crime now detail was proved
III the course cf the trial. On that same
day. his hands reekin9 with blood. he
met q man called jean Urrs, and killed
him at once, throwing him over preci.
p'ca. On E ,s'er day of the same year.
1878 be beat to . lly poor tanner of
E-,-lla. and flung him half dead over the
precip OF of ISuzqniza. On the 2 Of
June, in the same year, he beat to death
little boy 10y name Felix Chavarri, and
threw his body over the precipics Of
Eca'a. In the ssme Summer he killed
and threw over the precipice Of Ecala an
other boy, \ dsy.l.borer, called Garin.
Needless to say, he Always robb= and
despoiled bis victims before casting tn ir
msng,d r. mains, semi. conscious, over
'he abyss where was bis haunt, On June
8 he beat to death Hippolito Sang, cast
his remains ever rhe same abyss. In
fact the ably sses OF I3uzquiz. and Eoals
we're turned by this man into perfect
csmeteri Of murdered mems bod es.
On August 20 Of the same year he cap.
tured Rnis PsAcada close to E.tella. tor.
tured him one whole day and shot him
| the next,
1t has been said by the Carlists that
the victims OF this ruffians club and
knife were "spies." and. as such. lawful
game. Let us sss what follows: It was
| proved in evidence that on the same day
August 90 he outraged two unhappy
married women, and flung them. half
alive, down the precipice Of Ecals. On
the next day, or within two or three
days, be robbed an old road.mender,
aged seventy. OF his all. killed him. snd
flung hi q down the steep Of Iguzquiza.
Again, within few days. he bsa. to
death a eypay, aud aanR his body down
In Villstus rita. in the same year, he got
hold Of a girl OF gentle birth, rsvish'
AMI then shot her. throwing ber down
the precipice. He then commenced the
attempt to bury the victims alive; when
they struggled he bayoneted them. A
string of eight more proved crimes Of
murder, accompanied with every sort Of
horrid torture, here follows; but spare
your read RS the bloody and CHASTITY de.
tails. Suffice it to ssy thst one OF the 81
victims. whom be threw alive over the
precipice. was a Cariist soldier named
Eus. bio Arriets, who tried to escsps from
participation in such awful and blood,
deeds,