The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-02
S BANDIT HAD NERVE.
.-rR OF THE NOTORIOUS MEN
,c,N. JOAQUIN MURIETTA.

N GHf1IOIlAh AHitSs
-. Revenge when Americans
I'D His CIaim-Tray Shot
rbeir Tracks and Houses Pill
,~ned-His Raid Through Nevada
nnt,-FinnIIy Hunted Down by
can't Love and Killed.
rrom the San Francisco Post
,,torious of ali the robbers of Cal
-. early times was the Mexican,
Tin 1furietta. The name of this blood
r. bandit Is recalled even now with
s,j5er by those who lived in his day
had cause to dread his hatred. With
..-rible band he roamed from one end
.z,s state to the other, everywhere rob-
80 and numbering travellers and such
rnfortunates as came IN his way.
l-.5 bv the character and number of
aci1 deeds he was e-eminently the
hardened villain that ever lived in
Ca .ornia.
1.-The beginning of his criminal career
td in excavation, a romantic story
.,ntinued wrong and oppression of
b he had been made the victim by
American settlers in CalaVeras coun-
Tbe ruth of the matter appears to
that he had once quietly submitted to
ing his claim Jumped" but when il
ss tried q second time he resisted, show
6qht and was severely wounded
ri treatment was more than the Next
,on Iyould stand, and in revenge he took
~ tbe road. swearing vengeance on the
+od Americans The band of which he
ae the dreaded leader was composed to
rreat extent of Mexieans, but also in
n clnded desperadoes of other nationalities.
nm robherics committed by it's members
Xuere iunumerable, and usually they We're
Il ,.oronanied by murder Murietta's fol-
5Dr,,,rs tboucht nothing of riding up to a
a ,~,toer,s rent and in cold blood shooting
i dog,n the inmates before they realized
A - danger Travellers were remorse-
II ,aesl,- sbot in their tracks, ranches were
n irvaded and piilaged, and Cinnamon were
slain with as little conjunction as is
sboWn bv the "pot-hunter' who fires into
10 coyey of qual.
great deal of territory, however, in the
&oTtbern portion of the state, being con-
6ned Almost exclusively to San Joaquin,
[-aIaveras and Touloumne counties But
Mbe SETTLERS of Nevada county are not
Airelv ~ ever forget the famous raid he
Mnade through their section in November,
SKI. leaving behind him a horrible trail Of
blood.
Within few days after he had come
Ind gone we're found the bodies of twenty
i've men murdered and robbed, most of
hem i'm the vicinity of Honecut. In the
Shat the victims had been lassoed from an
anaiority of cases appearances indicate
mbiscade dragged into the bushes and
here dispatches with knife. As a result
hi these das-ardly deeds the whole of Ne
kada county's population flew to arms.
Sherf's posses and vigilance committees
secured the county from end to end, but
sJoaquin and his band escaped 10 the SOUTH
ern portion of the state.
A number of Mexicans were arrested on
suspicion of having been connected with
4the ouJrages, and it seems matter OF
ast0nshment that none of them were
#lynched, so excited and eXasperated were
the people. Many attempts were made to
81 capture the notorious bandit, but, besides
having the active sympathy and support
a OF large population, he had the fieetest
q horses in the country at his command,
81 always maintaining relays in the hands
of his confederates, and his pursuers
g never seemed to approach him. This gave
3 him the advantage of being personally I'M
a known, and made his capture all the more
dfcult
AT length Gov. Bigler offered $1,000 for
his capture, dead or alive the amount be-
ing afterward increased to $1,000 The state
4 was Immediately flooded with handbillS
describing the outlaw and announcing the
q reward. That Joaquin was not lacking in
nerve was very clearly proved by an act of
reckless bravado which he perpetra ted
ii Gce in Stockton in connection with this
4 latter Of the placing of price upon his
ad.
While quietly riding through the town
knoticed a crowd reading a handful post
in a prominent place, and coolly rode
b to see what il was that interested the
fzers. Dismounting, he discovered that
Is be crowd was reading of the reward Of
red for his life.
n Pushing his way through the throng, he
81 Fote in pencil underneath the printed pro-
vi amation:
v Il will give $4,000 myself. Joaquin"
vi Then, before the astonished bystanders
ould interfere, he mounted his horse and
i Ode away, and was soon in safety on the
road plains of the San Joaquin. How
yer, as time went on Joaquins tenure of
oerty became more and more precarious,
pr ii was not without effect that price
lad been set upon his head and he was
united In all quarters.
Scarcely second in cruelty to the robber
mef himself was his first lieutenant, the
iotorious "Three-Fingered jack" who
murdered for the very lust of killing, and
+N ShNN4aA ODJttlS Oh WHOSE udlitu were
Pie luckless Chinese who happened to fall
'mto his hands. He seemed to take a dend
sh delight in torturing his yellow cap
ives always despatching them finally by
cutting their Threats. 1t is said that In
the three years during which Joaquin's
land raided the foothills, Three Fingered
Jack personally killed over hundred Chi
nose.
The ease with which Joaquin seemed to
elude the numerous sheriffs posses that
were from time to time placed on his trail
hnaliy eXasperated the law-abiding pop
platlon beyond endurance, and company
or rangers was finally organized, under
ne command Of Capt. Harry Love, with
me express purpose of hunting the bandit
rom place to pace and finally running
him 10 earth
Love was a noted mountalneer of the
carry days, Of undoubted courage, although
many sneerd him because OF his peculiar
appearance. He swore he would never
crop the chase until he had extermnated
Joaquin and his band, and he kept his
word. When all others were ready to give
up the nope of ever capturing the OUT
l'"' Love continued his relentless pursuit
uay by day and night after night, some
vines losing some of his men In ambus-
oaues' but always pressing untlrlngly and
remorselessly on.
And at last he ran Joaquin to bay and