The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-18
BARRUNDIA'S DEATH.
1t is Graphically Described by
an Eye Witness.
HE FOUGHT HARD FOR HIS LIFE
Chasing His Would-be Captors Through the
Ship and Firing at Them-He is
Slain by yolIey.

lopeclai 10 The HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.I
NEW YORK, Sept. IA. p. Mulligan,
VINO was purser of the steamer Acapulco
upon which General Barrundia was butch
cred by the soldiers of the Guatemalan
government in the harbor of San Jose,
de Guatemala, reached this city on Mon
day. MIR. Mulligan told this story of the
butchery OF General Barrundia, of which
he was an eye witness:
1.-THE night of August 27, the Acapulco
lay at anchor close to the Ranger at San
Jose de Guatemala. At half past 1
O'Clock the Acapulco was boarded by Gen
erai Torrielle and five policemen who had
come from Guatemala to arrest Barrundia.
Torrielle showed Pitt letters from Miner
saying it was the captains duty to surren-
der Barrundia; he would not be harmed
except for his political ofenses. Pitt said
to the passengers. L have to surrender
Barrundia. Take the ladies to the lower
cabin Barrundia's stateroom opened on
an aisle on either side of witch were six
other rooms amidships; they passed
through the centre of the aisle, and
Pitt knocked on the door and it was in
stantly opened and Barrundia stood before
them. He was 6 feet inches tall, forty
nVe years old, had black hair and a long
drooDlng mustache. He spoke French and
Spanlsn, and Pitt understood English only
Inc latter read the letter and General
Iorrlelle interpreted it. Barrundia UNDER
stood all before the second line was re,
peated by the captain and exclaimed, Good
God ! Jumping back into his state room
he pulled two revolvers from under his
Dunk and fired point blank at the men be-
tore him. They fed through the aisle.
cameron was sticking at the mast amid
SHIPS. He turned TO the right, jumped into
the state room and closed the door Bar
rundla was after his heels, firing as he ran
Missing the men he ran around on the out
slde and hred bullet or two into every
state room, hoping to hit some one by
chance. Pushing forward he came un-
willingly within half dozen feet of the
i've special officers who had not gone into
the cabin with Torfielle, and who were
hiding behind the hatch near the
pilot house. All five blazed away
at Barrundia Who fell dead at the first vol
ley. The officers stood over the body and
emptled their revolvers into it. The
hiring was done so close that Barrundia's
face was burned black with the powder.
Nine bullets entered mis- head. Leaving
his corpse the five officers began a search
Tor his friends. Brown, the first mate,
mad locked them in a stateroom and stood
guard at the door with repeating rifle.
The murderers were covered.
'Ihe dead body was wrapped in ham
mock, dragged by the heels along the deck
and down the gang plank into boat that
carried it ashore. The American naval Of
hcers on the land heard of the killing of
Barrundia and went aboard the Acapulco to
get the particulars. They made no COM
ments. That afternoon Commandment Tor
relle notified Pitt that he must not sail.
Two hours later six men came aboard with
orders to take Barrundia's baggage ashore.
They were given an invoice of the bag
gage and spent all night copying the hun
dreds of letters and papers found in the
dead mans trunks. These copies were
taken ashore to link others in his plots''