Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-17
LAUGHED OVER JORDAN.
4 Mexican Murderer Plays His Parl
With Great Eclat in the Gallows
Tragedy at Brackett
A Typical Brute Mentally. a Typical
Demon Morally, Typical
Man Physically.
How Life WAS Sacrificed 70 Avoid ne.
teotion In city Robbery other
Legal Jerkings.
! cnoosNp Iltr. 1 srNAoHI orAFn.

cROoHKD lifE, 4 STRAIGHT DEATH.
Special TO the Gazette
BRAcKErr tx, April i6 Camille
Gonzales, the Mexican who murdered
Peter Johnson, was hanged here at $3.50
p m. to-day. He went through the
terrible performance very coolly, having
first eaten good dinner, smoked q
cigarette and written 3 letter TO his
father. On the gallows he spoke mo-
mentor two, maintaining his innocence,
but he declared that be had no illfeellng
for any one, and hoped that all were his 4
friends lie laughingy bid all good bye
and all was over Deputy Sheriffs Jones
aud Gilden attended 10 The prelminsrles
OF this the first legal execution which has
ever taken place IN Kinney county
Camille Gonzales Wac wild beast /
Gagged. In a state Of liberty he was IN
impartial and picturesque thief; Ia prison
he WIS an ill.conditoned ruiilan, with r
curse for his keepers and u kick for all
supernal and internal And yen It was Il
| pity that so straight man should die.
Broad sh0uidered and deep cheSted, long
armed and thin-fanked, powerful and
graceful, ho was picture OF human ply.
steal possibilities, the highest type 81 un-
educated, but splendid Lrute force, an
4 Adonis OF the chaparrali. over hishrawuy |
/ through the heavy mustaehe, behind |
! sensual thick lips, shone sav0gely glitter /
Ing teeth, and Oh his bull neck The muscles |
rose IN cords. His copper skin glowad with |
health, and the animal spirits IN him
! found vent perpetualy in some outbreak |
against his cuptors, his fellow prisoners /
or his fate, He was a prOduct Of The NJ.
rested development OF his nation, o
simple child Of nature varieg9iod |
scoundrel The fote, white very hand /
some, was Mexican IN the eNEemo, only !
IL had Of that nations drelniress.
IL was a quick and powerful iRec, the
clear cut lines aad heh check bones
showing It's descent, Gonzales WAS a
"Palado,e thAtis, mixture OF Aztec, |
/ Castiian and Indian. Filtered down, |
condensed, extracted fcom countless
generations, ia him were all tbs vices
of the nations whose diverse blood ran IN
his veins He wasa leader among his
people, AVID known on both banks ot the
= river FIR many miles He was as caring
, q rider as ever crossed horse, deadly
shot, of mistaken nerve, of magnificent
vitality, y gambler, adrinker, a cut-throat,
guitar player and singer of high tenor
ballads. There died with him restricted,
but singular, knowledge For years the
: first 10 all local rdercriminalities, there
passed out Of life in his teemng brain
} secrets that griz2led sherffs and tanned
: coastguards would have gwen their ears
, TO know. Many wild tale OF midnight
foray aud he fash OF the Winchester
in the darkness. Many Jolly
, story of soft moonlight and
! struggled bales, many a legend OF sodd,n n,
: upturned faces In the river, many re-
: cital OF delirious rides In the tearing chap
. arral with the laws sieuth-hounds on his
3 trial. They all died with him. With
constituencies inhumanity he jeered at
the buZzing reporters who essayed TO
pump him. He was u predatory villain,
and made his livelihood In Mexico and
t the United States impartally. That
which he could steal was his and what
he couldn't steal no man could lift. With
! ribaldry and oaths he passed his long
u days. The dark-sknned women on the
{ street wiped their eyes when they spoke
: OF Camille, end The men gravely discussed
r him, and hoped, In sibllant Spanish, that
. the great God would be good to him, for
/, he was only poor man and would not
\ mind the priests, That this noted Snug
: gler, this prince Of raiders, this chief OF
a This desperate fellows, this wild-riding
lshmael should die like a sheep In the
( SHAMELESS, made their only sorrow. They
had not looked for this fate for him, he
A had not expected It himself. They had
: shared the goats mix with him many
time, had seen him lit by In the night on
!. an errand Of crime or love, aud had won
! dered at what hour IN the day and IN
!. whose hands would be the Winches-
: ter that would curtail q life
go full Of motion. IL is a hard thing Tor
a a Mexican TO be thus broken up Ia his
pre-arrangement OF destiny, and his COM
paniDuc Snfflrfd Vvit flofuilin
On the LIST Of November, 1885, Peter
Johnson, ranchman, sat reading IN the
y rear room " small country grocery,
near Bracket. II was O'Clock NJ night.
Some one raped at the front door.
/ Thinking It q customer, johnson arose
. aud opened g.. He was confronted by
4 three men, who tied his hands, gagged
:, him, then Wtnt through tue store, real
y izing about $4,000. Az they reached the
: door, in order to avoid the risk of future
!, detection, one Of them turned ndsshot
y Johnson, the ball entering just above the
y right eye and lodging under The skin In
! the back Of his head. lie was found IN
= his blood next morning. Such was Con
zales' character that he was at once
= traced and arrested Conviction fol-
!, lowed his trial. lie hed four companions
F" in crime, two OF whom stood guard dur
ing the robbery. Three Of them live IN
Mexico, and have never been captured
The other, Andreas CoTeg'as, Is now In
J jail. He has not been tried. n is not
y lhoeght he will be hung, as he was a
u passive accomplish.
OIL HANGING FOR CRIMINAL ASSAULT.
r NEWCASTLE, DBL, April l6--Charles
Ii RooinsQn, fuli-booded negro, was
o hanged here to-day Of / i03 O'Clock p. m,
y for q criminal assault on the person Of
IS Mrs. Ella Y. Gardner, white victim OF
u his lust, and the wife Of Anderson Gardner,
d farm lab0ter. The crime was commit
D. ted Oct. 8, last. Robinson WAS arrested
soon aiterwarc, tried, cony cited and sem
fenced 10 be hanged April rs, 1886,
u LoufatilIiana Angry