The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-16

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 much so that Garcia lodged and fed
 with Osma at pleasure, Finally Osma | sold his secret to the civil guard for a
 sum, agreeing to pilot them to the hid | ing place of Garcia and his men, In
 the fight which ensued Osma killed Garcia's mulatta, Plasencia The oth-
 CTS escaped, but Garcia swore eternal
 enmity against Osma, and his house has | been guarded by the civil guard day
 and night ever since.
 Another family, consisting of father,
 mother, son, two daughters, male and
 a female negro slave, had been in the
 habit of entertaining him frequently. l He came and went as he liked Finally | they became afraid to have him come | longer for fear of government appre- | hension and so secretly informed the civil guard that he would sleep at their | house on certain night so that they
 might arrest him. Some one of Gar cia's numerous spies informed him of the plot, and he did not appear. A few days after this he came to this house
 early in the morning, cut the mans
 head off, killed the pregnant wife and all the others. This was because they
 had betrayed him. Three years ago he went to the rail-
 road station in his native town, Quivi- can, and demanded money from the
 agent. On being told there was no
 money there, he ordered the agent and
 his wife to get out and then set the
 building on fire with coal oil.
 He probably never killed more than
 twelve so far as known, and two of these were his own companions whom
 he suspected of treachery, one of these only the day before he himself was shot.
 He. might be induced to lessen the amount of tribute exacted from some of his unfortunate victims, but every one had to pay something even though
 he must mortgage his property to do so.
 Of the money he accumulated in this ill-gotten way he gave liberally to the
 poor wherever he went so that they loved him and acted as his spies in many cases, while it was only the rich who dreaded him. Instead of terrifying and robbing them, he gave to them and helped. They acted as spies for him voluntarily, and so sure as any danger threatened him they warned him if pos sible. Even his companions had no knowledge of the system of signals un- derstood between him and his friends. For example, if he and his party were riding along and he came to a pile of brush with a twig sticking up in the top, tree cut the wrong way, or other like signs, he knew at once that some one was warning him of danger ahead and he at once turned back, but none of his companions knew why.
 On account of the recent revolt of the Cubans, Garcia on Sunday, February 24th announced his determination to abandon his bandit life and become commander in chief of the insurgents His party. as I have said, consisted of only six, but on Sunday he admitted ten more who claimed to be insurgents desiring to march under his banner. l With this understanding he added them to his ranks, and it was one of these | that shot him in the back of the head | on Monday morning.
 Although his mistress was one hun dred miles away she heard the news be- fore any one else, showing how prompt and perfect was their mode of commit nication.
 A post-mortem was made and the body buried, when some one secretly to the authorities the infor- nation that 1t was the bandit, Manuel Garcia
 They exhumed the body and sent for the negro, Osma, his enemy, and Galin- das, Alentado and de Castro, whom he had kidnapped who all identified it as that of Garcia.
 They also sent for his mistress but she refused to come.
 The Spanish military of Cuba often boasted that Garcia was afraid to come near them and repeatedly expressed a desire that he might do so. Garcia heard of their boasting and challenging and soon after approached one of their sentinels with the demand that they furnish him with a military escort for ten miles on the pretext that he car ried money and it would not be safe to travel alone. This they promptly did. The next day he wrote them letter full of defiance and derison, telling them what they had done and advising them to be more modest and to boast less in future.
 Garcia was undoubtedly the most iaring, courageous and diplomatic of men. His ability was worthy of a bet .er cause.
 It is said that Vincente Garcia was killed at the same time This was very likely the result of plot to kill both. Vincente was twenty-six years old and lad been a bandit since the age of 1 ,inetaan or twenty