The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-10

for food and water. which was admins
tered to the dog.
The discovery of this murder was fol-
lowed by wild excitement in the pueblo.
The resident foreigners is, not
Spanish-Americans- usual, acted as If
the crime were result of race antagon-
ism, rather than personal motive, and
they called loudly for vengeance, and
were not far from creating an incendiary
uprising. Guards were posted to watch
over the public safety, an ordinance was
issued requiring citizens to be within
doors by 10 o'clock at night and volun-
teer guard was placed over the jail, be-
sides which a small detachment of SOL
diers were sent thither from Santa Bar
bara.
And now was set in motion all the
complicated machinery of the old Span
ish law, not altogether unlike the proc
esses of the French criminal courts,
and various vagabonds and suspicious
characters were taken into custody.
These prisoners were kept under guard
of several soldiers, and they were con-
Quoted to the a1calde for examination by
corporal. The dog of the murdered
man had been given such good care that
his strength was fully restored, and he
had been brought to the scene of ex-
animation and tied within the room.
It was the observant and reflective
clerk of the court who first noted that
the animal was growing, sullenly and
resentfully, as one of the prisoners stood
before the alcalde, whose attention he
called to the fact by writing few lines,
in which he suggested that the prisoner
be returned to confinement until the
matter should be discussed. According
ly, Don Manuel Roquena sent away the
wretch cringing there, and the guard
was directed to bring in another prisoner
after few minutes. Again the dog dis
played marked anger and hostility, as he
did at each new installment of suspects.
t'Let us try an experiment." said Don
Ygnacio. ''Win you arrange, Don Man
uel, to have another guard bring in, one
by one in turn, the men who have just
been before us?'
This was done, but the intelligent ami
NAL, few moments since so savage,
now only looked inquiringly at each ar
rival, but made no demonstration of
enmity. Then pretext was found to
call back the corporal who first had
brought in the prisoners. He was one
Santiago Linares, a slender, dark fellow,
with a youthful, almost boyish counte-
nance and ingratiating manner. He
was unanswered near the dog, and no
sooner had he come within reach than
the mastiff, bristlingsand snarling fierce
", sprang upon him and would have
throttled him had not those present
torn Linares out of his fangs. Trembling
and ashen was the fellow, yet full of
self possession, and feigning wonder and
indignation when taxed with completely
in the murder. He had not even been
in the pueblo, he declared, on the night
of the crime; it was his day off from
service, and he had been at the mission
with his mistress, one Eugenia Valencia.
| Nevertheless, he was at once sent to
Jail, and that incomunicado; that is
to say, solitary confinement, where no
one could see or communicate with him.
And ''Send for la Eugenia," instructed
the alcalde
This Valencia woman came of a very
criminal stock, and she and her family
were at the bottom of vast percentage
of the disorder that befell in those days
in Los Angeles. The brothers were
scamps and practically bandits, fitting
sons of depraved parents. Another sis
ter lived for many years in illicit bonds
with William W, one of the wealth
lest of the foreign residents, whom it
were hardly kind to indicate more clear
ly, since his descendants still live among
us. After she had borne this man three
children his jealousy of her fragrant in
fidelities led to a scandalous shooting af-
fray, notwithstanding which he would
still have married her, but that the
authorities banished her from the pueblo
rs measure of public safety, and she
died some years later at Mazatlan, where
W, because of his vested interests
here, could not follow her. He sent
however, for her children, and educated
them with his legitimate children, he
having married meanwhile one of the
Lugos from Santa Barbara. Of sucl
strain-resolute, bold, unscrupulous-
was the woman whom Manuel Requena
the alcalde. sent to fetch from Sar
Gabriel
His messengers took her all unaware
She had not even heard that the murder
was discovered, and so when they had
secured her, the officers searched he
dwelling and found bundled away there
in large quantity of the effects ant
clothing plundered from the murdered
German. The officer who arrested he
, did not fail to impress upon her the sig
!, nificance of this find and its tendency t,
criminate her. Thus when she arrived
at the courtroom she was quaking, full
of terror and an abject conviction tina
her own liberty and her own life were il
: peril. Under the stress of this fear, ant
, almost without waiting to be questioned
, she hastened, when brought before tn
alcalde, to declare that she had been il
the company of the men who had 6lle.
the German and that she had been