The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-09
PETER CASTRO CAPTURED.
Begs the Sheriff ON His Knees to
Save Him From Vengeance Of
an Outraged Community.

| SALINAS, March s. = Peter Castro.
who was recognized by Mrs Douglass
of Castroville as one of her assailants
of Monday night, was captured last
evening as he was about boarding q
train at the Pajaro depot.
| When arrested he gave his name as
George Stewart. said he was working
near jacksonville and denied that he
was Castro or that he knew Mrs. Doug
lass. Just then the husband of the
injured woman appeared. when the
man appealed for protection to Sheriff
Farley, and acknowledged that his
name was Castro and that he was the
man wanted. He also pleaded not TO
be taken through Castroville for fear of
being lynched.
After having been landed in jail here
Castro made damaging admissions
which satisfy the officers of his guilt,
and make it evident that there were
several others implicated.
| Castro, while in the Sheriff's custody,
it is said, told Douglass that he was
not responsible for what had been done,
and also, when asked how his face
had become scratched, said Douglass
had done it. He was told that Mrs.
Douglass said she had scratched him.
when he blurted out:
She could not nor did she, as held
her so she had no power
A charge of attempt to commit
a criminal assault has been placed
against him.
| The excitement is still high in Castro
vile, and this morning the Sheriff's
office was besieged by many anxious
/ to see the prisoner, but no one was
allowed near him, as the officers still
| fear some overt act.
! The admissions made by Castro in Jail
leave no doubt as to his guilt and I'M
plicate also one Buck Silva and sew
eral other accomplices. AS this Is the
third case in Castroville of similar
nature the examination of the accused
will be deferred until quiet prevails, or
| he will be examined here.
| Full details of the capture of Castro
have Just been made public by the
Sheriff. When Castro escaped last night
from Douglass, the husband of the in
jured woman, he went to the house of
| P. Collins and told him he had been
| in a scrape at the Douglass place and
wanted to go to Salinas to surrender
himself A horse being refused, Castro
left on foot, but instead of coming here
went toward Pajaro, where he thought
he could board a freight train for the
north. The Sheriff and his posse also
went to Pajaro, having been notified
| that the culprit was headed that way,
and arrived just as the freight came
| in. About ten minutes after a. man
was seen approaching the cars from
the dark side, opposite the depot He
waS hailed and told to come nearer
and give an account Of himself. The
man stated that his name was George
Stewart; that he worked near there,
and was going to jacksonville. Farley
ordered him into the depot, where he
was told to open his mouth, when it
was found, by the light of matches,
that two of his front teeth We're MISS
ing.
Castro, for it was he, then said to
| the Sheriff:
.Is your name Farley? guess I'm
the man wanted" ODD
| Douglass had been informed of cas-
tro's arrest, and now approached,
when the craven culprit, trembling as
though in an ague fit, implored the ofn-
GERS to protect him. He also prayed
and begged on his knees not to pc
taken through Castroville. as ne was
afraid of violence at the hands OF the
outraged community.
| Douglass had been disarmed, yet ne
attempted to assault the trembling Gull
prit and while several officers re-
| strained him Castro was hurried into
a buggy and driven through the out
skirts of Castroville undiscovered, be-
ing landed in Jail here at ll:5o O'CLOCK