Arizona republican., 1903-01-24


 described by the saying "Once an en- emy always an enemy" He never for | gave an injury and never gave an | enemy credit for anything. For in stance, he insisted that General Lor- | enzo Torres was a coward, although l there is not a man in Sonora who dares say that General Lorenzo Torres knows what fear is. So implacable was the ] enmity of Dwyer for Lorenzo Torres 1 that he was the only man who ever | denied that Torres was brave; yet | Dwyer never tried to come within reach | of the Mexican general.
 | Dwyer. renegade as he was, was as l cruel as he was cowardly. His cruelty | was that of a madman. It knew no | bounds. He showed cruelty to those ! who fell into his power as he showed | cOwardice to those in whose power he | himself fell The strongest point in the | Renegade was his invention of canards { and cruelties. Being a woman-hater. ! it was he who supplied the Yaquis ! with an excuse for the killing of Mexi- can women. When many Mexican wo- men were falling into the hands of the Yaquis, in order to destroy these women, for his hatred of Mexicans in cluded women and children, he set afioat in the camps of the Yaquis a story that General Lorenzo Torres was deliberately sending out Mexican wo- men, of the Mexican soldiers, to be captured by the Yaquis for the pur- pose of spreading disease among the Yaquis. As many of the captive Mex ican women were found to be diseased the renegade easily managed to issue an order that all Mexican women should be put to death as soon as cap tured by the Yaquis. Owing to the heinOusness of the purpose that Dwyer charged the Mexican women with the YaQuis overlooked the ignominy of put ting the women to death
 Dwyer committed or rather had per petrated upon Mexican women two out rages which can never be forgiven or forgotten by the Mexicans. On one oc- casion two Mexican women fell into the hands of Fl Renegade at Chum- umpaco. Instead of ordering the wo- men put to death he had them dragged by horses through the cactus and pethaya. When the breasts were torn from the women and they were other wise terribly lacerated he sent them back to rejoin the Mexican army. They died after rejoining the Mexi- cans.
 On another occasion Dwyer captured three Mexican women and an infant on the road near Torin. The women had baskets of fcod with them for soldiers in the army. Dwyer had the captives taken to a spot where an aged Yaqui who had committed many atrocities had been hanged by the Mexican sol diers to a tree in full view of the road. He had the body of the Yaqui cut down and had the three women and little baby hanged in the same place. When the bodies of the victims were cold he had the rope around the neck of the mother of the baby loosened so that the toes might touch the ground and then placed the corpse of the baby in the arms of it's mother so as to make It appear that the death of the baby was caused by its own mother.
 Among other crimes of which the Renegade was guilty was the murder Jf Jack Gleeson. an Arizona prospector. near Guasimas. Gleeson was friendly 10 the Mexicans but never assisted them against the Yaquis. About four months ago he was captured by Yaquis and brought into a camp where the Renegade was. His hands were bound behind his back ard he was perfectly helpless. The Renegade cOolly walked up to him, placed a pistol to his head and blew his brains out. The Yaquis had no time to interfere.
 Dwyer is accused with being directly implicated in the killing of Superiu- tendent Sullivan near San Marcial two months ago. It was he who placed the name of Sullivan upon the black list of the Yaquis. It was the Rene gado who invented the system of as sassination that is being followed by the Yaquis. He introduced among the Yaquis the blacklist. Upon this black list is placed the names of all persons. Mexican or American or peaceful Yaquis, who have been known to pro- nounce themselves against the hostile Yaquis. Any person connected with the Yaqui revolution can send in q name to be placed on the blacklist. Peaceful YaqUis in the towns keep watch upon everybody and supply most of the names. The names and in formation go before the council of war and are passed upon by that body. Any person whose name appears on the blacklist is liable to ssassination Dwyer had the names of Superintend- ent Naugle of the Sonora railroad. General C. P. Egan and many other prominent men placed upon the list. Men were black listed for simply dis charging Yaquis from employment or even passing a remark not to the liking Of the Yaquis.
 It is untrue that Dwyer was popular in Arizona. He was driven out or many towns in Arizona because of hIs machinations. The citizens of Bisbee were on the point of lynching him at one time.
 Dwyer appears to have held Santa Teresa completely in his control He used her name to excite the Yaquis without her consent but she dared not stop him from doing so. The last work of Renegade Dwyer was the matching of the conspiracy O fAlamos. discovered and frustrated by the Mexican authori- ties last December. Through this con- spiracy he expected to cause the up- rising of the evicted squatters of the states of Sinaloa, Durango and Sonora and bring about the alliance of the Yaquis and Mayos and ultimately cause the amalsamation of all these forces against Mexico Succcss womb