Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-06-12

ing the knife IN his beast, when Manuel
Herrera, q ncighbor, who had heard the
shooting and ran up. seized him.
AZ we'll try TO seize one Of the leopartis
Of Con. Macedonia spun around In the
neighbor's arms, and Manuel Herrera,
stabbed through the heart, was added to
the dead In the doorway Of the Hacienda
Mojas
There Was nobody else around except
servants and poems. II WINS none of their
business TO interfere in a family quarrel.
The cooks kept their preparations for the
wedding breakfast. and two old men con-
ttnucd 10 mend harness IN the corral
Stepping over his victims. Macedonia
went into the honsc. In the hallway he
found Anita He seized and carried her
70 the gate He lifted her up before him
In the saddle He ga!iopcd away 10 the
mountains
1t was morning before the authorities
learned of the four dead men M the Hsci-
| enda Mojas and the flight Of their muir
dercr with his sweetheart The hig bell
| was runR The vaqucros were gathered.
The neifhbors came, and the soldier
police and all struck of for the mountains
on the trail of macedonia Frausfo.
But more than his Indian nose and his
ehnrp eyes had come down 60 the young
cowboy from the men who used 20 hunt
3aguars In those same mountains.
| On the fiat there was not much trouble
60 trnii him. but when the upland was
reached &c seemed ms ~ the double ridden
horse had taken wings. Abandoning the
cow trails the young murderer had ridden
across the loose rock that held no telltalo
tracks Some Of the trailcrs thought they
found finfs that bore the mark Of n shod
hoof. but IL was wild searching, simply a
securing over the rocky hills, and % came
20 nothing An Indian can trail white
man and find him In any sort Of country.
but there was no trick Of the mountains
that Macedonia Frausfo did not know
and he employed them all 10 covcr hi.
tracks. He knew where they would search
and those were the places he avoided.
He told the story sfterward, and whs,
he did not tell the girl did. So they huvs
the connected tale Of the wanderings ol
the pair nc Monterey.
There are plenty of 3acuars left In the
Con hills, and there nrc other beasts "a
carry out the punishment Of death wber
the human agents Of tho law fail Tn,
searching parties saw the buzzards hover
ing about n precipitous. inaccessible can
yon. and. coming back. reported their belle
TINT Macedonia and his sweetheart had
been devourcd by the wild things Of th,
mountains
A bitter enough time the pair had Of .,
hiding In the hills, and once the spotted
ounces almost avenged the murder a
Anita Mojas' brothers. bctrofhed and
ncighbor. II wns in the canyon Of San &c
ronimo they were attacked by the japuars
They were crouching among the rock
the second night after the murders whcr
the beasts found them out One Of IN,
animals lcaped upon the young cowboy I
back as he covered there. and Il was only
his inherited swiftncss and hts bloody
J knife TINT saved them. All that nigh
Macedonia stood guard. and wherever III
saw pair Of eyes blazing In the brush b
fred with his revolver.
II WINS "Wednesday night when the younI
murderer swung his sweetheart before hir,
into the saddle and galloIcd nway GO TN
mountains II was the following Tucsdn.
when the pair staggered into Niiladana
over 20 miles awny. They had sfaid ou
rs long ms they could. They had lived oi
roots and berries that the Young noun