Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-21
GAVE UP ITS DEAD.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY UNBOSOMED
BY THE RIO GRANDE.
Two Brothers, Believed to be American
Citizens, Executed in Esarbar-
Manner Suspects.
Special to the Gazette.


SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Nov. Gothic water
of the Rio Grande, after ten days shroud-
ing of the relics of the assassin's strokes,
has given up its dead. A week ago there
came to its surface the bloated corpses of
two tall, well-proportioned men, whose
clothing showed they were well-to-do
Their breasts CAPPED with many strokes Of
the knife. Decomposition was so far ad-
vanced that the mother VINO gave them
birth could not recognize her offspring.
A terrible slash of the knife
had disemboweled each. One foatesi
to the surface at the Penltas ranch, If
teen miles above Edinburgh, Hi5algo
county, and was buried on the river bank
as unknown. The other arose at Edinburgh
and received like burial.
Some weeks before two brothers, Severe
and Jose Castillo, living at the
Charco Escondido (hidGen pole) ranch
were drafted into the army
by Gen. Garcia as guards
for his regulars as in emergencies like that
caused by Catarino Garza's invasion.
The above ranch IS thirty miles south of
Reynosa, Mexico. These brothers were
born in Refugio county, Tex, sons of Jose
Castillo, who was an old settler there.
Some years ago they and their mother re-
moved to Reynosa, Mex. Days passed and
neither verbal nor written message came
from the boys. The old mother
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intensified as time went by.
They no longer rode with Gen. Garcia's
regulars. The relatives and friends feared
the worst. When the news came of the
two hastily made graves on the Texas side
her heart told her that there her boys lay.
In size and form they were her sons, but
the river and the grave had so marked
their features as to leave them unknown
even to the mothers loving and searching
eyes, When asked if their bodies bore no
marks she stated that Jose's right leg
below the knee carried q ball from
the accidental discharge of
pistol, which by the rapid strokes of the
surgeons knife was quickly found, the en-
-circled bullet making the Identification COM
plete, as did the clothing OF the other
brother, and now they rest In Campo Santa
at Reynosa. The Mexican authorities as
sert from the manner of the death, the
barbarity practiced on them points them
out as the victims Of private revenge. On
the other hand it IS strongly asserted that
they died under military order, the
victims of revolutionary suspicion. The
following reasons are given TO support this
theory: 1t is alleged they were last seen
alive with the government troops. Last
summer FL Libre Pensador, Catarina Gar
za's paper, contained number of letters
purporting to have been written by Cara
from various points in Mexico from
Camargo to Matamoras, and in one he de-
tailed the kindly reciprocation he met with
from Severe Castillo at the Charco Escondi-
do ranch. These letters were penned while
the-editor and revolutionist Garcia was
safely seated in his office in Texas, as no
one believes he made the tour along the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande
descubed in his bombastic letters.
1t is believed this imaginary hos
pitable welcome by Severe Castillo
made him revolutionary suspect and
caused the military manner of execution to
lay the deed at the door of q private enemy
The death of the brothers has caused in
tense excitement on both sides of the river,
as they were prominent men at Reynosa,
waelthy and with hosts of friends. 1t can
not be learned that they had ever given up
their American citizenship, and the secre-
tary Of state will be asked to investigate.