National Republican., 1884-06-18
4 WOMAN BANDIT.
In CHrumboda Killed As,er mn EItraor-
dlnnry Career or Crime.


Quereiaro (Itsico) Litter % V,,o York s,h.
la Caramboda, tho woman brigand, long q
terror to travellers in this region, is dead at
last with a bullet in her heart. Her opera
tions extended over many years and woro
of tho most daring description. For a
long time tho authorities found IL
very difficult to trace or even TO explain
the crimes which she committed, for no one
suspected that a woman was the guilty per-
sou. No two of her robberics were committed
in the same manner. Sometimes she was q
passenger and at other times she was with
tho bandits and took part in the shooting, IL
any was to be done. A woman of some per-
sonal charms when appropriately dressed, she
was q fend whom about her busines ofmurdcr
and spillage whom very few cared to en-
counter Her male assistants wCro many
and devoted.
Ono of her schemes, IL has been learned
was to bido her time in some town until she
found one or two men of means who were
going by the diligence to somo distant point
and then to take passage with them. IL is
suspected that on moro than ono occasion she
took tho driver into her confidence, but when
this could not be done she readily deceived
him or quieted him with abullot. A perfect
mistress Of tho art of dissimulation aud
possessing soft and insinuating manner,
she had no difficulty in working horself
into tho good RTaces Of travellers who did not
look for Mexican bandit under her attract
i've guise In this way she easily discovered
who had money aud valuables and who had
not. If she found u man who appeared to bo
of some consequence, but who did not have
much money, she betrayed him into the hands
of her coniodorates who held him for n ran
som. If her victim proved to be we'll supplied
with cash ho usually met violent death
within twenty-four hours.
Leaving town before daybreak in COM
pauy with two travellers whom she had
marked for robbery, she would coyly accept
tho customary innocent attention at their
hands, and perhaps indulge in u little con-
versation with them. An hour latter, when
we'll on their journey, watching her oppor-
tunity, she would draw two revolvors, and
before thoy could detect hor movement
lodge a bullet in tho back of each of them,
Tho driver, busy with his team, and perhaps
paid not to bo too attentive to what was
going on behind him. would not disturb her.
With hor booty secured, she would take her
own time about leaving tho stage, always
waiting until point convenient to the fast
ness 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 per
petrated, but the similarity between several
cases soon attracted attention, and various
experiments led to tho discovery that a
woman, operating first on ono road and then
on another, was at the bottom Of them. The
plausible stories told by tho drivers served to
mystify the officers more than anything else.
They always asserted that highwaymen had
done tho work, and IL inquiry was made at
one end of the route for the woman who
started, it was always said that she arrived
at her destination unmolestod. Tho absence
of telegraphs and of any regular means Of
communication msdo it possible to keep up
this deception for q long timo.
When the woman found that she was sus-
pected she abandoned this plan of operations
and, remaining with tho robbor band to
which sho was attached, devoted the greater
part of her time to the abduction of wealthy
agrioulturists. Her plan in those cases was
very much tho same as in her stage robbery
enterprises. First winning tho confidence of
her intended victim aud getting him
involved in some intrigue, she would betray
him at tho proper timo into the hands Of
her associates, who would spirit him away
and presently open negotiations for his
return. While these were in progress she
would bo busy setting her net for
fresh victim a hundred miles away.
In CarnfnOoNUpa aistsst ploit was unsuc-
cessful. She was lowering about tho san
Juanico hacienda with the intention of secur-
ing the abduction of Don Civelo Vasquez or
ono of his sons. when fellow who had long
served in her train deserted and communi-
catod 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. Hear
ing of her fate her followers determined on a
rescue. They pursued the officers for twenty
miles, and, overtaking them at Connindad
opened Gre at once. The troops returned
the shots, and lively engagement ensued,
in the course of which three of the bandits
were killed and tho others put to flight.
When the troops approached thoir prisoner
after the fight they found her dead, pro-
sumably from buller fired by her own friends.
The chains were removed from her lips, and
she was buried by the roadside. One of hor
captors describes her as beautiful woman,
not more than 80 years old, with clear COM
plex ion, and long and abundant hair. but
with 10 wicked eye and cruel-looking mouth
when in repOse.
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