Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-03
BLANCO WAS A HUSTLER.
AND LIKE carr. KIDD, MANY WICKED
THINGS HE DID.
lie Was French toyagcInr. Who siaugh.
tered scnati's Saud-Iatcr an tie was
Found to lie IN Accomplished
Bandit Himself

tho bnnditu for a century. Johuuih M!.u M!.u
ietto WAS The most bloodthirsty and darins
~ ali ncxt coino Vasuuez. ana then scores
of others with Thoir small Danus' utriI,s, uuniI
whom were sxiei ihli,aSS' h,n,I,, bSndg We're half
patriots half thic.cs anu " W. mai ma"i ,,s.5i
They originated afttr taliiornla NV pasS'u
many under the guise of oppression, othGrS
for plundtr. but all from nauSu IL
American c,onqne,ir25rs,, ,;,oiit i,65, the coun-
frv yyns oyerruu with bandit bands. lnlgr
the pretense Of hunting Town "rENhhsI and
piundered both Americans an M,Ni'iiuls .,i ,imsi
Americans who came south NiA' - ,,ttic
and 'ingots' for ne p"rSnase l,sr returned
They were murdered ana ronhid 'ri.tor-
fortunes of some Of the so,ca.leh ~ fn'Jn-
racy OF California OF to-day had thet ''
dation in blood and robbery; ,- tho
Los Angeles. the city Of Ansels Wns ,r,,ats u
headquarters of ihe tniiSNts' T ussostutttGbrrii
california. on being drVgn io, iro,l' ,,,,t ,n
northern mines. or from ArlTnn9' tnfS ,, of
90. o.workers--horsethie gamblers or PAD
assasslns Every man carried nus ,,.srs G9Is
strapped to his back, and , ths renoireTS nnn r.
their sleep their guns were withlh sasg
reach. street brawls were TOO tre1u"h' ,r' no
stead of "a fine day" the question would
be. well. who was killed last nEFhty
shooting and wounalng. the matter OF n"
uuietudc Of the town was a sunleCt oi g,oli., ,,
inent There were more rouEH Eil. -,
IN the city at this time. IN" lalitr part q!
1854 than there were in san Francisco at
the same time. notwithstandins u i!rESp sSo
population. This Is accounted tor ny lhe
fart thai n large number of despcrIdoes
and thieves had been rcn out OF san Fran @
cisco and the northern gonnl,es sro,, Hr" With
naturally came to Los Angeles from Wnly,u
place. If ordered TO move on ~ wa III ui,,S
Two days ride TO the MeNlcan mn, l'.r ,,, iMs
the early "iifticS' there were thorr ihur
ders committed IN this city IN any one
year than there were IN the haIhnie Oh ti.e M
state combined. wa 'nS ,,,nt,ed ,non
Of bands Of cattle thieves. VINO hfeStu "puii p,i
the ranches, stripping them OF th,tln t III
horses. which they wou,u snlp 70 , w @ i,ui 'I s
ern market; II was @ ~" i i",' my,onsi,,Iy
business men. and there werg ., ,s, for M
hired assassins. VINO Wo"lu NH ''a" i''
pay-liNing upon pluo''
The most notorious of these wa, was .sr,im hrencm, Z
Novageur from Ncworleans called bianco
He was the leader OF secret socisty ol as
sassins and had committed several murders
IN New orleans, al for MONEY IN 6 ms
party was Mexican assassin naineu SER
att one morning on a corner oil me mos.
frequentei street in the CITY Sehati ,L, sLappeu
10 death the city. marshal Jack Whalins'
He then wiped the blood from his knife.
mounted his horse-in w2lunscnna oiS
appeared. The town was in furore. "A
meeting of the best and most orderly eie-
ment was held, and 1t was resolved 10 pan
tsh all the bad characters from .he tity;, ,y,;
But some OF those charic@ttlS @ t, VIZ III , ~
ness men, ana the intention was aban-
doned. AS IT was feared that the Hesheta.s i
characters might get the upper hand o. ann nod
Danish them, Finally a reward OF T2.wo
was offered for Senati, dead or allNe.
Blanco disappeared, and one rainy morning
about two weeks after-the murder had
been almost forgotten-he rode up TO ne
Jail yard, and in the rear was ramshackle ms
contained five dead bodies, exposed TO the
rain. not even blanket shielding the cory
Gorpses f., fr3m 1 arS ,mf wss eTnwded with the
morbid element who Eloat upon blood ana
revel in human misery: Blango stated 20
Senati and his band of cut throats and held
as a hostage-S5C00 being demanded Tor ms
release-and that he was threatened with
stated time. He explained his escape ana
the presence of the wasoniodd OF bodies
were ont on a marauding expedition, he
heing left with Senau ana two GUARDS.
By StrataSeih ne Gptann." poSsfSSioi1 't ~ IN
the two guards, who were out in the yard,
whom he shot IN turn @ as eaGh h entered t tne
men, hearing the shots, returned, and he
shot them from the window He then went
TO the adjoining ranch and impressed the
readily believed. as it was known that
Blanco was possessed Of copsiderable mon
ransom frequent occurrence. He kept
n saloon and posed as a respectable busi-
After the sheriff had taken possession OF
the hOlios and told the coroner to ''EO and
niant EN- Blanco cooIly demanded the
50 O5O reward, The sheriff was a lttlc sur
prised as the killing Of Senati ana his com
rades seemed to be matter OF self-de-
fense and liberty with Rlanco. But the re.
ward had been offered in 'due legal form -
the outlaw had been captured and delivered
according to terms and II was not for
him to question by whom or for what rea-
son, and he Immediately paid the s. 600 In
gold "slugs" and charged h to the county.
From that moment Rlauco was the hero
Of the town Dcspcradoes mal. way for
him as h., walked The streets and the bull
jies of ,hr tinhoIn striU, treated him with
thr rreatost respnc,. For several weeks
the utmost quiet prevailed in the city, ana
ynhhetirs were not nearly so numerous
rhe mos, dtnger6us band had bern Killed,
aud ~ one mar-Ilaupo' the hero How.
evor zone dark stormy night" about ono
,1ontb an, thn strange rsran, Of BInnrc
fror' tb. bandit rgmm a clone highway.
man v,e5riprr +, bigrk silk mask snrarip
out IRON, banr,tb tha shndow, of a tree In
1rnrt ~ tbi nIgza near S1nora and de-.
p,0,Ied. "paiivni, p" ,res.ntinr "A rayolver
rba man hnd becn 'gambling heavily nj
,nonte and had won sio6 or $500 which he
bsd stutfed into his porlycts and was hur.
i mar Stu,' w. 70 liz ionp, az tba AN" I-ni"n
IyinG up ~ ~ ~ '"1bii va bI notic.t
~ gnod ynrt1nc or hnd urereiei min
fon,7 T.o ~. ,,amhiinr hell re did nor IL"
iivar hnt AcnTrviuG "A ;nifa i'm his sleeve
hlr,o Ia nu oth r,I, M a. ~ rea,i,. t1 ,riiv,r
IJa hrompht Ms strong right' arm iowr
nwor tbe rohber,s fara cuttinp nway th,
bea ask bn hnne 'aSS S rbe chi" chin vi lie nsX aSWe tb
robh"r n left-handcr. the left hand han