The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-07-30
MEXIC0iS WOMAN BANDIT.
SHOT DEAD AFTER AN EXTRAORDI-
NARY CAREER or CRIME.
Her Plans OF Numbering Fellow stage Pas.
scBgcrs md Holding wealthy Men Pris-
Oners for RnDsom-iier Followers Fight
Desperately Tor her Amer her Capture,

Her Plans OF Numbering Fellow stage Pas.
srngcrs md Holding Wealthy Men Pris-
Oners for RnDsOm-iier Followers Fight
Desperately Tor her Amer her Capture,
A letter from Queretaro, Mexico,
says: La Caramboda, the woman
brigand, long terror to travellers in
this region, is dead at last, with bul.
let in her heart. Her operations ex.
tended over number Of years, and
were Of the most daring description.
For long time the authorities found ii
very difficult 10 trace or even to explain
the crimes which she committed, for no
one suspected that woman was the
guilty person. No two of her robberies
were committed in the same manner
Sometimes she was passenger and at
other times she was with the bandits,
and took part IN the shooting if any
was to be done. A woman Of some per.
sonal charms when appropriately
dressed, she was iiend when about her
business Of murder and pillagc, whom
very few cared TO encounter. Her male
assistants were many and devoted.
One OF her schemes. 1t has been
learned, was to bide her time in some
town until she found one or two men Of
means who were going by tho diligence
TO some distant point, and then to tahc
passage with them. 1t is suspected
that on more than one occasion she took
the driver into her confidence, but when
this could not be done, she readily de,
ceiyed him or quoted him with q bul.
let A perfect mistress Of the art of
discrimination, and possessing n soft and
insinllating manner, she had no diff
Guilty in working herself into the good
gracGs Of travellers who did not look for
Mexican bandit under her attractive
glisc. In this way she easily discovered
who had money and valuables and who
had not. ii she found n man who ap.
pearcd to be Of some consequence, but
who did not have much money, she be-
traycd him into the hands Of her CON
iedcratcs, who held him for ransom.
II her victim proved to be well supplied
with cash, he usually met violent
death within twcnty-iOur hours.
Leaving town before daybreak in
company with two travellers whom she
had marked for robbery, she would coy.
ly accept the customary innocent atten-
tons at their hands, and perhaps in
dulge III a little conversation with them.
An hour later, when well on their Jour.
ney, watching her opportunity. she
would draw two revolvers, and, before
they could detect her movement lodge
bullet III the back Of each of them.
The driver, busy with his team, and
perhaps paid not TO he too attentive 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 a
point convenient to the fastness of
some Of her confcderates was reached.
1t was known that the highways were
infested by robbers, and it was not
thought strange that an occasional muir.
der was pcrpctrated, but the similarity
between several cases soon attracted at
tentlon, and various experiments led to
the discovery that woman, operating
first on one road and then on another,
was Mt the bottom of them. The platisi-
bic stories told by the drivers served to
mystlfy the officers more than anything
else. They always asserted that high,
waymen had done the work, and il in
quiry was made at one end Of the route
for the woman who started. it was al
ways said that she arrived at her desti-
nation unmolested. The absence of
telcgraphs and Of any regular means of
communication made it possible to keep
up this deception for n long time.
When the woman found that she was
suspected, she abandoned this plan of
operations, and, remaining with the rob.
Der 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 rs in her stage robbery enter
prlses. First winning the confidence of
her intended victim and getting him in
VOWED in some intrigue, she would be-
tray him Mt the proper time into the
hands OF her associates, who would
spirit him away and presently open ne.
EQUATIONS for his return. While these
were in progress she would be busy set
ting her net for fresh victim hun
drcd miles away.
la Caramboda's latest exploit was un.
successful. She was lowering about tina
San Juanico hacienda, with the inten.
ton OF securing the abduction of Don
Ciyelo Vasquez, or one of his sons,
when fellow, who had long served in
in her train, deserted, and communicated
her secret to the authorities, They
made elaborate preparations to capture ,
her entire party, but, failing in this,
they made sure of her, and soon had her
IN irons: Hearing of her fate, her fol.
lowers determined on rescue. They
pursued the officers for twenty miles,
and, Overlooking them ut Connindad |
opened fire at once. The troops re.
turned the shots and a lively engage.
ment ensued, in tho course of which
three OF the bandits were killed and the
others put to flight. When the troops
approached their prisoner after the
tight they found her dead, presumably
from II bullet fired by her own friends.
Inc chains were removed from her
limbs, and she was buried by the road.
side. One of her captors describes her
ms beautiful womun, not more than 30
years old, with clear complexion and
long abundant hair, but with wicked
eye ana cruel-looking mouth when in
repose
Music and Insanity.
The theory of the close connection
between muSir and ;noo,;t, . |