The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-29
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A STRANGE DELIVERANCE
A Tale of the Texas Frontier.


sharp. Thirty rounds. By order,
CAPTAIN BORDER REGULATORS" "
These were wild times on the Texan
frontier. No home was safe from
scenes of rapine and pillage: NO man,
woman or child secure from violent
death or fate even wore. Out If
this condition of things, and the leth
argy of our Government authorities in
obeying our urgent pleas for military
assistance, the independent organic a.
ton known as the Border Regulate rs
was born. Id.
We were a stout, resolute body of
men, made desperate by desperate
wrongs, and caring little for the dan
gers we encountered SO long as we
wreaked vengeance on the bands of
Mexican robbers. So every man of the
fifty forming our secret company knew,
on receipt of this laconic order, that
work was awaiting us, for we had re-
ceived many similar ones before, and
many a brave fellow who then went
out with us never returned.
Onr captain explained briefly the
motive of his call A spy had brought
that a strong body of fero-
cious bandits were congregated on the
Mexican bank of the Rio Grande, at a
point about an hours march distant,
preparatory to raid on our people.
1t was enough for US to learn that
they were under the leadership of the
cut throat Cuchora upon whose hands
was the blood of hundred butchered
women and children of our Texan
homes, to secure a Unanimous demand
to be led to their camp. .l,aF s.
Ferrying the river. we made stealthy
march through the rank. tangled grass
and brush. The euerrillas were all
asleep except a few guards, whom we
surprised, and foil. we'd In SO closely
that they did not suoeeed In arousp,g
the camp until We were charging back
and forth through il, dealing death
and destruction in our way
The route was complete, the gueril-
las flying in all directions, with scarce
an attempt at resistance. though. great
ly to our surprise, they were four times
the number of our little company. In
five minutes after our first attack we
were separated into squads of five or
ten men each, slI engaged in the frantic
rush in different directions after the
several wings of the fleeing rohber
force.
Ineyer realized just how it happen
ed, but in the rage of this wild pursuit
/ became conscious that was slone In
my chase after a force of twenty OF
thirty fieein ,guerrillas.
My foes seemed to discover the fact
at the same moment, and suddenly the
order of pursuit was changed-I flee
ing, and the guerrillas in chase. Shots
hustled after me thick and fast, but !
would probably have escaped unharm
ed had ! not run into the arms of an
other party of the flying euerrillas
In trice was set upon, disarmed
and bound; in another breath should
have been made q target for score OF
more of bullets had not breathless
brawny cut-throat, whom / recognized
as the dreaded Cuchora himself, inter
fered.
"Ten thousand ourses on him!" he
hissed. '.Kiiling is too merciful te
him. Have not vowed to akin alive
every cursed Regulator who falls into
my hands2 Drag him away to thu
Salito stockade, and let him meet hi
fate before us all an hour after day
light. All but Ave of You follow me
to our new rendezvous ct La Posa. I"
An hours terrible tramp With tn,
I'VE ruAlnus Acls . etoaH 0teA AAc
brought Us to ssiito, q miserable liftl'
Mexican hamlet. whose inhabitant
iawaked by our entry crowded to thei
doors and horribly reviled me, or re
ioiced over tho terrible fate awaitinl
; me as reveaied by my boastful guards
1 felt relieved when thrown into
: cold, damp, noisome room, half unde
9 ground. and strongly grated with irol
2 bars over the single aperture near tn
: ceiling. sl ~ 1selTa-a'i
. Icould hear the guards squatted oul
: side this aperture holding . dssultor
!: conversation during the first fifteen o
I I twenty minutes of my Incarceration
j and at last coming to the conelusio
{. that one of them was sufficient to stan
u suard over me. They agreed that the