The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-08-05
THE WHITE DEVIL.
A BANDITS HORSE THAT BECAME HI
MAsTEk'S AvENGER.

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Nasquez was the most noted hapdi+ =
the early days of California. He bid do
lance to the law, eluded the deteoti 90
! ana searching parties for syears. an,
Killed and robbed half hundred men
lie roamed over the state of California
from the north TO the south. leavin,
death and desolation in his wake. II,
surrounded himself with band of DIES
Pefate Mexicans and terrorized entir,
communities. Lone travellers hv do,
ana oy night We're stopped on the road
ana renewed of their cash and often tbei,
h'es. A quiet village in the San .Joa.
gum Valley would be awakened in tbe
dead of night by the rush of soupdipo
moor beats, Timid men would pull the
covers above their head and sbiyer Next
gay the principal store in the place wou,d
DE found open, the safe robbed. valuable
goods taken and the guardian, if it had
any, dead with bullet in his head mr. a
knife wound in his heart Vasousz had
been there.
Nasquez made history in this way for
five years, and then was caught ike a
rat IN trapin an adobe house. and was
shot down by newspaper correspond-
eht detailed to accompany the search
party. He survived his wounds. was IN.
Ken to Sanjose, where one of his earliest
and most atrocious murders had been
committed and there met his death ON
| the scaffold.
Every time the robbers appeared
one OF them, the leader would be mount-
gu on white horse. That he had a
world of speed was shown in the wav
that he would gallop away from the rest
OF the gang when they were pursued. The
horse was hitched behind the house
when Vasquez was shot. One of the
capturing party tried to take him. and
was severely bitten for his cupiditv
Inc horse broke away, went careering
on toward the canyon where Vasouez
mad had his rendezvous and was lost to
SIGHT Most people say he died in the
mountains of starvation, but the Next
cans say not. They saw him again.
The night after Vasquez was hanged
White horse gaIloped up the street to
5he Jail, stood moment at the door and
save neigh. The Mexicans heard in it !
call to the dead Vasquez. There came |
40 answer to the horses challenge and |
ne wheeled about and went as suddenly /
Is he came. Then he turned bandit aud
followed Nasquez's old trails. Once in
while man would be found on the
road with his body fnghtiully
mutilated and his flesh bearing the
marks of hoofs. Sometimes in the night
= white horse would appear at the door
OF a Mexican cabin in some lonely spot
daleHHsGbw Il no answer came he would
t"oh n-.--- eli tho horssa s.,v man
was seldom that a victim escap5&Spn'd AZ
Time and again he was shot at, and
one Mexican buck was toolhardy enough
to try to rope him, and met horrible
DEATH The horse bore charmed life.
He became almost as great terror to
the Mexicans as Vasquez had been to
rich Americans. If by chance Next
can pony got out of the corral and wan
dered oil in search of grass the white
horse would find him and enlist him.
First he had one follower then two, then
half dozen. No man could kill them,
and no man dared to attempt to capture
them.
With no loads upon their backs they
were fleet as the wind and could outstrip
the best horse with rider. The Mexi-
cans named the leader the "White Dew
il" and said that Vasquez lived again
in his horse.
As the years went by and Vasquez be-
came memory, and his exploits the
theme for childrens stories, the White
Devil lost his companions. His visits to
the vicinity Of the little towns became
less and less frequent and then ceased
altogether.-De Free Press.