St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-02-01
AMONG MEXICAN BANDITS.


4 8obbef Makes His Excape Whl1o
Shackled to . Corpse.
About week has elapsed since thrce
bandits attacked . diligence in the State
Of Vera Cruz. Among its passengers
were . number Of Americans. Tho
driver, at the command of the highway
men. who were backed by three revolv-
ers which fully covered him. brought
his horses to . standstill. lie was mado
to dismount, and in the usual style was
mada to stand at one side of the road
way with his hands pointing heaven
ward. The passengers were then re-
quested to step out of the coach and fall
in line with the driver. One Of tho
Americans was among the first to obey
the mandate Of the hold-ups. He. how
ever, on dismounting did not leave his
Winchester behind, and had hardly
touched mother earth when he COM
menced to dump cold lead into the high.
waymen with skill that put them to
fight
The day following this episode. and in
the same vicinity, the identical gang
tackled that stage again. They sue
ceeded in relieving the passengers, who
were all Mexicans, of every thing Of
value on their persons, and left them
doing duty in line with their hands
above their heads. Flushed with the
success that had attended their ex-
ploits, the highwaymen had not gone
far before they fell in with two mule
drivers. and At the point of the revolver
proceeded to despoil them of every
thing they had packed upon their ami
mails. One of the mule-drivers, not
relishing the treatment, demonstrated,
and he fell victim to the wrath of the
hoid-ups. He was tied, thrown to the
ground, and his nose buried in the sand.
His companion kept q discreet silence
during the disposition of his goods, and
was not molested.
For some reason or other, after the
robbers had completed their work. one
Of them remained behind. The mule
driver who had kept quiet said to him:
"YO teconosco.
SWELL, I'll fix you so you won't know
me-" replied the highwayman. and he
pulled his revolver and commenced shoot
ing at the driver. who kept dodging
until the shots in the revolver had been
exhausted. He then fell upon the hold
up with rock, saying to him:
''Yo me toca, . mi" (Now 1t is my
turn.)
The first blow with the missile knocked
the skin of the robbers face. They
then grappled and fell to the earth,
pelting each other without mercy. Dur
the struggle the other driver managed
to free himself from the ropes with
which he had been tied. and,
with rock in hand, fell upon
the bleeding highwayman, beating
him to jelly. The two VIC
torious drivers then took their prize and
tied him to one of the animals and es-
corted him to an adjoining hamlet,
where he was shackled to another pris-
oner. BY some means or other the two
men effected their escape from the
room in which they were confined. A
posse went in pursuit, and a running
fire was opened. The man shackled to
the highwayman was killed by one of
the shots. He was now picked up by
the gamy robber, who made good his es-
cape, Notwithstanding the burden that
he was carrying.
Two or three days afterward, about
three miles from where the fight oc-
CURED, the body Of the man who was
shackled to the hold-up was found in .
hut with his leg cut of. but the robber
was gone. The highwayman, who was
recognized in the hamlet, is known as a
very desperate character. A detach-
ment of rurales are now securing tho
country for the purpose Of putting stop
to further robberies. San Francisco
Examiner.