Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-23
TWO OF A KIND.
THE SANTA BARBARA MURDERERS
AT THE COUNTY JAIL.
Threats of Lynching Made by the Resi-
dents of Both Santa Barbara and Ven
tura-Company D, N. G. c.. Supplied
With Ball Cartridge-A Riot Imminent.

The feeling of the Santa Barbara pub
lie against Ramon Lopez, the Mexican
who SO foully murdered Mary Dezirelli,
young italian girl, on Monday morn
ing last, was so strongly in favor OF lynch
ing as to cause the officers to remove the
prisoner, together with Eduardo Espinl-
osa, who murdered William Keys on
September 10Th, to Ventura for
safe keeping. On Tuesday, however, a
rumor to the effect that the mother
of the murdered girl was dying from the
murder, reused the slumbering indlgna-
ton of the Santa Barbarians anew, and
a crowd left for Ventura on the morn
ing train. On learning that there was
a likelihood of his receiving visit fro m
an armed delegation from that city,
Sheriff Reilly of Ventura, accompanied
by Deputy Sheriff B. Wheels of Santa
Barbara, hastened to remove his pris-
oners, and finally concluded to bring
them to Los Angeles. Accordingly the
officers drove from Ventura to a small
station several miles inland, where they
boarded the train, and on arriving
in this city late Tuesday night, the two
murderers were at once taken to the
county Jail. The Santa Barharans were
terribly disappointed when they found
that their prey had again escaped, and
the greatest excitement prevailed in
Ventura. Indeed, the authorities were
alarmed to such an extent that tele-
gram was dispatched to the governor
calling upon him to order out company
ID, OF the N. G. c., as a riot was immi-
nent, and yesterday supply of ball
cartridges was dispatched from this city,
in response to dispatch.
Ramon Lopez was seen by a HERALD
reporter in his cell in the middle tank of
the county Jail last night, but he was in
a surly mood, and refused to make any
statement whatever. He is of medium
height, dark, and has a most repulsive
type of countenance. 1t was very evil
Cent that he was no stranger to the in
terror of Jail from the manner in which
he acted, and on investigation 1T was
learned that seven years ago he killed
young German named Henry Heitz, on
the Also road, in this city, by stabbing
him, like the coward he is, in the back.
For this crime he was convicted, but of
granddaughter only, and was subse-
quently sentenced for four years in San
Quentin by Judge Smith. This term he
served out, and since his liberation he
has been comparatively quiet.
Eudardo Espinosa. the other Santa
Barbara murderer, who is in another
cell, but in the same tank, was very
communicative. After detailing the
circumstances connected with his own
crime, in which, naturally, he attempted
to show that he did nothing beyond de-
fandino himaa1f from a hloodtb;roty n O.
sailant; whereas the facts are,that he de-
iberately shot and killed an unarmed
man, with whom he had picked a
drunken quarrel; Espinosa denounced
Lopez as bad man and coward. He
said he knew the Dezirelli girl, who was
liked by every one who knew her. He
said that Lopez was scared to death al
most on Tuesday, and while being driven
from Ventura was in an agony of fear
lest the vigilantes should overtake him.
Espinosa expressed no fear for himself
and appeared at a loss to understand
why he had been brought along with
IOpeZ.