The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-02
MExlco,s WOMAN BANDIT.

MENco'S WOMAN BANDIT.
Shot Dead After an Extrs0rdinary Career
of Crime-Her Plan for Numbering Stage
Passengers.
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La Caramboda, the womsnbrigand, long
terror to travellers in this region is dead
ut last, with bullet in her heart. Her
operations extended over q number OF
years, and were Of the most daring da-
scription. For long time the authorities
found 1t very difficult to trace or even to
explain the crimes which she committeds
for no one suspected that a woman was the
/. guilty person. No two of her ropberies
were committed in the same manner:
Sometimes she was passenger and AZ
! other times she was with the bandits, and
/. took part in the shooting Il any, was to b
DONE. A woman Of some personal charms
when appropriately dressed, she was q
|, fiend when about her business Of murder
and pillage, whom very few. cared to en-.
counter, Her male assistants .3 were II many anpy
and devoted. .A,.,, i.t.. 80.
q Leaving a town before daybreek IN com d
panyJ with two travellers whom she had
marked for robbery, she would .coyly, ac-
cept the customary innocent attentions at
their hands, and perhaps indulge in a M lit
, tie conversation with them. An hour
, later, when well on their journey, watch.
ing her opportunity, she would draw two
reyolvers, and, before. they could detect
+, her movement, lodge, bullet in the back
i of each of them. The driver, busy with his,
team, and perhaps paid not to be too at
tentive to what was going on behind him.
would not disturb her. With her booty
secure, she would take her own time about
leaving the stage, always waiting until
point convenient to the fastness of some OF
her confederates was reached. ...
1t was known that the highways were in
tested by robbers, and it was not thought
strange that an occasional murder was
perpetrated, but the similarity between
several cases soon attracted attention, and
various experiments led to the discovery
that woman, operating first on one road
and then on another, was at the bottom OF
them. The plausible stories told by the
drivers served to mystify the officers more
than anything else. They always asserted
that highwaymen had done the work, and
if inquiry was made at one end OF the
route for the woman who started, it was
always said that she arrived at her destin-
alton unmolested. The absence of tele-
graphs and Of any regular means
of communication made it possible to
keep up this deception for long time.
When the woman found that she was
suspected, she abandoned this plan OF
operations, and, remaining with the rob-
ber band to which she was attached, de-
voted the greater part of her time to the
abduction of wealthy agriculturists. Her
plan in these cases was very much the
same as in her stage robbery enterprises.
First winning the confidence of her in.
tended victim and getting him involved in
some intrigue, she would betray him at the
proper time into the hands of her associ.
ates, who would spirit him away and pres.
emily open negotiations for his return.
While these were in progress she would be
busy setting her net for fresh victim q
hundred miles away.
La Caramboda's latest exploit was un.
successful. She was lowering about the
San Juanico hacienda with the intention OF
securing the abduction of Don Civelo Vas
quex, or one of his sons, when fellow,
who had long served in her train, deserted
and communicated her secrt to the author.
tiles. They made elaborate preparations
to capture her entire party, but, failing in
shis they made sure Of her, and soon had
her in irons. Hearing OF her fate her fol
lowers determined on rescue. They pur.
sued the officers for twenty miles, and,
overtaking them at Connindad, opened
fire at once. The troops returned
the shots and lively engagement
onsued, in the course Of which three of the
bandits were killed and the others put tc
flight. When the troops approached their
prisoner after the fight they found hel
dead, presumably from bullet fired by
her own friends. The chains were removed
from her limbs, and she was buried by the
roadside. One of her captors describes
her as beautiful woman not more than
thirty years old, with clear complexion
and long and abundant hair, but with 6
wicked eye and cruel-looking mouth when
in repose. H.