Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-01-03
VERDUGO Writes a Letter Before
 Breaking Jail. PAYS RESPECT TO FELLOW A Vindicative and Somewhat
 Ranting Epistle.
MT. Verdugo Goes into Details in the Epithet Business. The Writer
 has a Mind ts go Home.

Perhaps my day has now come or which l have to die.
 Therefore, mol I will not suffer any , longer; tomorrow, on Monday %, lo9O tkey will take my life or I shall take my freedom.
 Not till today have I reflected upon the error am committing by submitting to these American bandits. It is there fore necessary that you Verdugo (ad- dressing himself) should make a last effort; enough of so much consideration 1 never thought to see myself given into the power of criminal s- Of b. and much less that I would be delivered to them by my own country. although l care not for that as it was done by a barbarian like them. It is true that some time ago had this same inten- tion, but if I did not execute 1t then 1t was for the reason that an American in dividual probably had some suspicious about it and I think communicated I l l was watched more than ever; since then 1 have had the weapons here. Let MT. Pellon guess where I kept that weapon. Think well MT. Pellon you who are so smart, but in this your smart ness did not avail.
 Another thing MT. Pellon (berle?) communicated to you a part of this business, because really it IS my fancy to tell the jailors that l am going to have, that they may be aware of it. Is it so Mir. Pellon that 1 told 1t you? Do not deny it. I will also tell you Mir. Pellon that on the l4th of August you were born (The writer evidently means! that in as much as he made up hls mind to kill Peilon on that occasion, but was foiled. Pellon was borne again on that day, Note of Edltor,) be- cause on that day you will remember that l came to the door and said to you Don Pedro, take out some buckets of watermelon rinds which have been a long time in these buckets, and l be- iieVe them to be thoroughly rotten. Then you opened the door and the in dividual who came in. to take them out stood in the very door and thence stretched his arms out and in tho man. ner took the buckets, that Is the reason why Mir. Pellon escaped me then.
 In fact MT. PellOn l nave mInd to return 10 my native country because am very patriotic as you well know, hr. pellon. Several times 1 mad words with you on account of things you did to Mexican prisoners and when 1 throw it up to your face why you did not treat Mexican and American prisoners alike you answered ne 1t was not my business, and If | should meddle again you know very well what to do with me.
 That Is the reason why Mir. Pellon due5 hot like me, because l am patri- otic
 The truth is that Mir. Pellon is aban- ,.it and traitor to Mexico and to his Ve.y nation, for there is not thing .iiaJ l de- plse more than barbarian yhO becomes an American citizen. NoI No! .dr Pei!on, you have cOU mltted an error by making yourself an American citizen.
 The reason why he is traitor to Mex icC Is this: There Is not an individual shat comes from Sonora or other places | to whom he does nos sa3: Listen; do you | not wish to become an American citi- | zei.: you will thereby obtain the rights | you desire; in short, he leaves the poor l fellow ln such d state of confusion that | the latter will say: But sir, 1 shail not | know what to say in the Court. Then | .dr. PeliOe tells him: Do not fear if you | wish to do it; come to my house for a | week, and you will learn all that is requi- | site. Very well, Mir. Pellon, 1 shall go | there. And there he has got that poor | lmbeclle in the trap, gives him q klck | and tells him to ''go! 1 need you | no longerI" But at election time how goes it MT. Pellon, if you need them? Truth! Tell me gentlemen, if he is not a | traitor to our country! 1 have actually | a mInd to make away with this enemy | of Mexico; but let him thank Antonio | Sanches, who takes the desire out of my | head: to him he owes his life. do not yet know but what the circumstances at | leaving will demand it.
 Gentlemen, it Is very late, and sleep | Is overcoming me. You will do me the favor to excuse the bad writing of this paper. because 1 am in hurry. I have much more to say. Perhaps when you publish it you will do so with more care and more extensively, for 1 am very an gry with Mir. Pellon.
 Then Verdugo, tomorrow you are eith- CT victim. or take your liberty, with the favor of God.
 Good bye; good bye to all my friends.
 Remaining (usual ending to a polite Spanish letter follows here. ED,)
 MANUEL G. VERDUGo.
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