The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-11

The Death Of a asantifnl r... -.

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Q to travellers in this region, is dead ii
last, with a bullet in her heart. Her
operations extended over many years
and were of the most daring description.
For a long time the authorizes found II
very difficult to trace o aver to explain
the crimes which she committed, for "a
n suspected that a woman was the
guilty person. No two Of her robberies
we're committed in the same manner.
Sometimes she was a passenger and al
other times she was with the bandits,
and took part in the shooting, if there
was any to be done. A woman OF some
personal charms when appropriately
dressed, she was a hend when about her
business Of murder and pillage whom
very few cared to encounter. Her male
assistants were many and deyouted.
One Of her schemes, it has been
learned, was to bide her time in some
town until she found some one or two
men of means who were going by the
diligence to some distant point and
then to take passage with them. 1T is
suspected that on more than one occa-
sion she took the driver into her conf
dence, but when this could not be done
she readily deceived or Quoted him
with a bullet. A perfect mistress OF the
art of assimilation, and possessing a
soft and i~nsinuating manner, she hadn
difficulty in working herself into she
good graces of travellers who did not
look for q Mexican bandit, under her
attractive guise. In this way she easily
detected who had money and valuables
and who had not. If she found q man
who appeared to be of some consequences
but who did not have much money, she
betrayed him into the hands of her o
federates, who held him tor a ransom.
If her victim proved to be we'll supplied
with cash he usually met a violent death
within twenty four hours.
Leaving q town before daybreak in
company with two travellers whom she
had marked for robbery, she would coy
ly accept the customary innocent at
tention at their hands, and perhaps mr.
dulge in a little conversation with them.
An hour later, wheE well on their jour
ney, watching her opportunity, she
would draw the revolvers, and, before
they could detect her movement, lodge
a bullet in the back of each Of them.
The driver, busy with his team, and
perhaps paid not to be too attentive to
what was going on behind him, would
not disturb her. With her booty se-
cured, she would take her own time
about leaving the stage, always waiting
until a point convenient to the tastness
of some of her confederates was reached.
1t was known that the highways We're
infested by robbers, and 1t was moi
thought strange that an occasional Y
der was perpetrated, but the similarity
between several cases soon attracted az
tention, and various experiments led to
the discovery that a woman, operating
first on n road and then on another,
was at the bottom Of them. The plaus-
IDLE stories told by the drivers served TO
mystifv the officers more than anything
else. They always asserted that hlgn-
waymen had done the work, and n IN
quiry was made at n end OF the route
for the woman who started, It vas al
ways said that she arrived at her destlh-
alton unmolested. The absence OF tele-
graphs, and Of any regular means o.
| communication made it possible to keep
| up this deception for a long time.
When the woman found that she was
| suspected she abandoned this plan O.
operations and, remained with the roo-
Der band TO which she was attached,
devoted the greater pkt OF her time 70
the abduction of wealthy agrIculturists.
Her plan in these cases was very snucn
| the same as III stage robbery enterprises.
First winning the confidence OF her m
tended victim and getting him Inyolsea
in some intrigue. She would betray
him at the proper time into the hands
| Of her associates, who would spirit MN
away and presently open negotlations
| for his return. While these we're IN
| progress she would be busy setting ner
net FOR a fresh victim q hundred mics
away.
La Caramboda's latest exploit was
unsuccessful. She was lowering about
the San Juanico hacienda with the IN
tention of securing the abductlon o.
Don Ciyelo Vasquez or one Of his sons
when "a fellow who had long served q
her train deserted and communicated
her secret to the authorities. lney
made elaborate preparations 70 capsnLo