The herald., 1893-02-19


tent, and over barren wastes where the
white oand glistened III the sun, over
bouldere and washes, through mesquite
and acacia brush, up hill and down
| dale, meeting no one upon the road and
camping but once or twice at small and
| dilapidated villages, where tales of Apa-
| che cruelty were the general topic. until
they reached email settlement named
! Tepoca, which was to be the base
| of their operations. Here in the shade
OF immense redwood trees they made
their camp. They had been informed
| that there were fine indications in the
neighborhood, and that, indeed, there
was not far away from where they had
encamped, mine which had been
worked, but which had suffered neglect
since the owner died. As the
title to it had expired be.
cause it was not worked, they were
told that it would probably be an excel
lent thing, if after examining it and
finding it satisfactory, they denounced
it for themselves and extracted the rich
ore it contained. The guide who was
their informant promised to bring two
of his friends VINO knew the exact loca-
tion of the shalt, and it was not long be-
fore he appeared with a couple of half
|
| the wealth that was hidden in the mar
velous mine.
As matter of fact, they knew that
the vein was worthless and had been
discarded long ago by men who had lost
their time and money upon it, but they
meant to profit by the evident green
ness of the Gringos. AS did
every man and woman in that
section, they believed that Americans
were all very rich and never travelled
without lots OF money. The guide was
their partner and outlook, and had
laid in wait at Aguje for just such game
as the Dorrity brothers.
The greasers would probably only
have heeced the Americans of all they
could had not unfortunately for himself
and hla brother the older Dorrity drawn
from his wallet the wad of greenbacks
which he carried, and counted the
bills.
One of the Mexicans, who had been
in Guaymas, was aware of the value of
American bills, and when he heard Dor
rity ssy that there was just $780, the
! greaser knew that, with the exchange,
it amounted to 1000 Mexican dollars.
This he impaired to his friends, and
they forthwith resolved that they
should make try for thewhole amount,
rather than get few of the crumbs.
For several days they watched the
elder brother, with view of purloining
the wallet, but it was too well guarded.
The scoundrels became impatient. If
the Gringos wouldn't give them chance
to be robbed without violence, well, then,
they should be killed, and the sooner
the better
The Dorrity boys had not the slightest
suspicion that any harm was meant
them, because the Mexicsns were uni
formly polite and pleasant and anxious
to make good impression.
On the third morning after THAR ar
rival at Tepoca the five started up early
on the way to the famous mine. It was
bul couple of hours ride from Tepoca,
and they reached the place before the
sun wae fairly in sight. The shaft was
in little blind caflon, and hither the
three cut-throets conducted their un-
suspicious victims. After some maneu-
vering the brothers were steered
to the van, and just as the
mouth of the mine was reached two
pistol shots rang upon the air, and both
the Dorritys fell with bullets in the
back of their heads, killed instantly.
The bodies were leisurely relieved of
everything-valuables, clothing, hats
and shoes-and cast into the shaft,
which was more than half full of water,
and then big pieces OF timber were
thrown on top.of them, SO that they
might conceal the eghastiy.yictims of this
horrible crimea GSEgioat
The murderers now took TO horse and
disappsared, taking with 3 them the
animals OF the poor murdered brothers
and all their belongings-and Tepoca
knew them no more.
| A Mexican traveller, many days later,
attracted by the unusual number of tur-
key buzzRrds gathered at the shalt,
made an investigation which convinced
him that Ii was the bodies of the two
Americans whom he had seen at Tepoca
that lay fostering there in that slimy
hole.
The Mexican authorities were advised
of the matter, and, for q wonder, they
caught one OF the murderers ieasting
and carousing in high style at Onavas
His companions were there too, but es-
Z, capped. The assassin was incarcerated
in crazy old adobe lookup, and it is
not to be wondered that he was missing
the following morning. He had money
and friends, and why should the 'carce-
lero" or jailer, who had helped him to
drink go many bottles of mescal and par
taken of "chile con carue" and "maca-
roni con queso" with him ever since he
had come to Onsvas with his untold
wealth, bear him malice? Anyway, the
Gringos whom he did not know we're
dead now, and was the shooting of his
amigo going to bring them back to life ?
A few pesos, judiciously placed in the
jeiler's hands in the dark, answered
that last question in the negative, and
thus it is explained that the murderer
was absent from his cell next morning
when the gusrdia nacionales, with a
rope, came to the lookup for the pur-
pose of carrying him, nicely lied up,
with his hands behind his back, and his
feet fastened together under the horses
belly, to the city OF Hermosillo. And it
is not impossible that the guardias, too,
were sad because they had missed 9
chance of making something them
selves.
After that, this small band of scoun-
drels, being then outlaws, committed
outrages upon every one OF their
countrymen whom they considered their
enemy and went so far as to come into q
village openly and in daylight, carrying
away with much violence a comely
young girl, who was subjected to num-
berless outrsges by the whole gang, and
who became insane after she had been
nearly maltreated to death. They grew
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