The Sunday globe., 1901-05-26
RUNNING AMUCK.
A Cowboy LassOes a Young Lady
and is Now Doing Time.

Francisco Quevas is now doing two
wears Imprisonment in San Quentin
penitentiary. California, for the com
mission of new offense in the calen-
dar of crime.
oueras is a Mexican halfbreed and
cowbody. He and two companion
cowboys, after being paid off, tlled up
with bug juice and came riding into
little town near San Bernardino.
They proceeded to shoot up the town.
They were all mounted and riding
with the Spanish bits that bring
horse to his launches with the touch
of a finger. Shouting and Laughing
derisively, they tore up and down the
main street bringing their horses to
q sudden stop that slid them along on
their launches almost, then JaDDlng
the spurs into them, forced them to
lean forward and gallop on. Gallop-
ing wildly from end to end OF the
street. they flourished their revolvers
and discharged them in the air, at the
ground, and, growing more reckless
and more in love with their own wild
deviltry, they fred them right and left
for the Joy Of seeing the passerby
scamper out of range This they va
ried by unwinding their lariats and
whirling them at every living thing IN
sight-dogs, chickens, any old thing
they could topple over or send scurry-
ing to cover. Suddenly they saw walk
ing along in the distance two ladies',
Mrs. T. p. Drinkwater and Miss Grace
Shepard. With the madness of drunk
enness upon them they galloped to-
ward them, whOoping and swinging
their lariats, and before the ladies had
an opportunity to save themselves or,
indeed were aware of their danger or
conscious that they were the objects
of the wild onslaught, the lariat nooses
came singing toward them. One drop
ned over the shoulders of Mrs. Drink
water. but the big hat she was wear
ing saved her, and she managed to ex-
tricate herself before it could be tight
ened around her.
Miss Shepard was not so fortunate.
The lariat Of half-breed Francisco
Quevas caught her. AS soon as he saw
II drop over her head he gave shout,
put spurs to his horse and set on at
gallop, utterly careless of whether ne
was dragging her to death or not For
tunately for her, the loop did not catch
around her neck. It fell over her BODY
and frightened about her knees and she
caught It and held II in such manner
as to protect her head as she was drag
ged along For several hundred feet
she was bumped and scraped along the
rough street until her screams and the
indignant cries of the people who saw
the outrage so frightened the fellow
that he dropped the lariat and galloped
away.
The townspeople, who had been will
ling to overlook the eXuberance In
shooting up the town and let them
ride away to sober up, were not In
mood to tolerate this sort Of playful
ness. officers and citizens quickly
gathered and organized
The thing had happened so quickly
It was in the gathering dusk between
Z and 8 o'clock--that Miss Shepard
was not able to describe her assailant.
But that didn't matter. There was
swift pursuit and capture OF the three
wild merrymakers. The bad" man
was not TO escape. He had LETT his
lariat behind, drawn around his VIC
tim, and late in the night II was iden'
tifed as francisco Quevas' by some
Mexicans who knew him. That was
enough. The public sentiment in re-
gard to the bad" man expressed itself.
For once in a way there was no lag
ging in the legal process. Francisco
Quevas was sentenced to two years i'm.
prisonment in San Quentin. At first
he pleaded not guilty, but proof and
sentiment we're so strong against him
that he changed his plea to guilty and
got off easy"