The Monitor., 1889-04-05

of San Felipe haranguing against Jack
Raymond and urging the citizens to see
that in his case the end of justice were not
cheated The words Of the sheriff were
effectual, for he was a man of influence
and his utteranees were not to be consider
ed lightly. One night a mob with their
! brains ahame with whisky aud the fiery
! speech Of the sheriff set cut with rope
for the jail. bent on lynei,ing Raymond.
The sheriff headed the mob, and this gave
them courage. The jail was reached, and
the iailer, seeing the determination of his
visitors and recognizing in their leader
the sheriff of the county, offered but little
opposition, and Jack was soon in the hands
of the howling mob, the object Of kicks,
threats ard curses.
The night was well calculated for
such work. The rainy season had set in,
and sky heavy with cionds hung over the
valley. A strong wind came down from
the mountains, driving before it 6rench-
ing rain. The night was black, aud half
dozen lanterns carried by the mob did bnt
little toward dispelling the gloom about
them. liz the eastern outskirts of the town
stood a tall eucalyptus tree, and toward
this they dragged their helpless victim
They were soon there and the rope thrown
over a limb.
Jack had stood the ordeal without a muir
mur. he looked defiance at the crowd
around him, and when the sheriff asked in
a thick voice if he had anything to say be-
fore the moose was placed about his neck
he replied firmly, Nothing"
String i'm up, then, boys, yelled the
sheriff, 'let's git rid of i'm as soon as We
can; it is too id wet and cold to be fool
in around here.
The moose was quickly adjusted about
Jacks neck, around him was Iiv-
ing circle and at the other end of the rope
stood dozen sturdy men, anxiously wait
| ing Ter the sheriff to give the signal to set
tie back on it. He was but single step
from eternity, The half dozen lanterns
futtered and gasped in the rain and sur
rounded the victim with a weird, ghastly
halo. when / count three, boys said
the sheriff, spuli back on i'm, = and i'm
mediately he cried cone, and then two, .
his voice had Just begun to swell into the
sthree," and the men at the end Of the
rope with tightening muscles had just be-
gun to brace themselves for '.iong pull
and q strong pull, when there was the
clatter Of galloping feet and the rush of a
black lady through the lines into tbs mid
die Of the circle. Before the half paralyz-
ed mob could recover its senses the sheriff S
daughter had cut the ropes that encircled
her lovers neck and bound his hands. She
shouted to him to mount the horse in front
Of hes. He was up in an instant, and be-
fore the men sent sprawling in the mud by
the horse had recovered their senses Jack
and the sherif's daughter were rattling
away through the darkness with the speed
OF the wind toward The mountains. Sew
eraI shots were sent into the darkness af
ter them, but they went wide of the marx.
From that night to the day her remains
were discovered Zsrifa Martinique was
| DSfc4 HtEH pf biiT tuhd9todHts t3 tAb eaAL
joaquin valley, nor could the retreat of hel
lover, who became a notorious outlaw. be
discovered Three fingered Jack, as Ray
mond came to be known in after years, be
came the terror Of the San joaquin valley,
and no less than seven of the men
who bad attempted to lyneh lin were
sent to their graves by bullets from his
ride. Eight years ago he was captured in
3 desperate saloon fight in Red Cliff and
hanged for his crimes. Before his exeeu.
tion lie sent for Jose Martinique, and in an
interview told him that his daughter had
lived with him five years, then died, and
that he had bnricd her remains in the
mountains near lis retreat, where nobody
could frd and disturb them. On the gal
lows he cursed Martinique rouadIy, and
charged him with being the cause of his
turning his hand against the law and the
people.
Jose Martinique became demented and
roamed among the mountains, continually
searching for the grave of his child His
, body vas found one morning at the bottom
, of Sulphur GIuch, where he died of expos
ure and exhaustion Chicago Herald