Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-24
How TiburGiO VaSQuoZ,
 NOtGd Bandit, Died

AL last the wife Of one of the jail CTS who had been very good to him cooked a meal herself and carried it to the bars through which food end drink were passed to him Come. have made you a dinner of all your favorite dishes myself Just as gentle as baby he an swered her: No, no; l think too much; head. heart too sick But you'll starye yourself to death.' she said.
 With a grear Dig gulp down his throat he answered, in bitter voice:
 Never die by rope; too much shame. te e.e-=s= = s=zs1ss.5 :, i1. cheat the gringo yet
 "'Vasquez. nagged the woman. you know men say you arc bravs. but - backing away from the bars-but II say you-aIe-one-gre pig. coward,'
 with yell he leaped from his cot he hadn't quit for a week and pounded the bars with his fist.
 Me a coward, How dare you say it, How dare you!'
 The woman trembled, but, ursei by the jailers. she went on.
 Yes. you are a coward; y0n are not brave enough to take tfa a:edi- cine that's been given you and die like man, if 1t is at the end of the rope
 Well, he hadn't thought of that To starve like dog was a new Idea. "He stood as if nailed to the floor. not a muscle in body or face moved, then. with a great big sob in his voice. his face white as cotton. he stretched out his trembling hands. Give me food. give me drink: no grin go shall ever say Tiburcio Vasquez was afraid to die
 Somehow he got it into his head his body was to be turned over to some dissectsng society after his death. to which he bitterly objected. He wanted to be sure he was going to have a coffin, so he asked the au- thoTities if he couldn't take a look at it. So the night before he was hanged the undertaken appeared with his gruesome home on his shoulder ard set it down .n the cell where we were all standing. It was very nice black covered, wooden coffin lined with white satin. Tiburcio calmly looked it all over, felt the handles to see if they were strong ordered the top of, and, by gracious if he didn't knock us cold by pulling of his shoes and lightly stepping in side the thing
 Let me see how it fits, he says, and deliberately lays himself down, stretched cut and tried the pillow under his head. Getting up he took the satin pillow from it's place, read justed 1t. then tried the narrow bed again He rolled his head from side to side on it but stsll it didn't suit Out he got and showed the undertaken what changes the pillow needed to make his head rest easy like.
 There not much more to tell, eX cept that he ate his salt like a man.
 His neck was broken on the drop and l all that's left of one of the most pol ished daredevil robbers of the Pacific
 Coast is handful of ashes out wonder
 in Santa Clara cemetery"
 What happened to LeiYa the
 avenger?"
 '1Tiburcios friends swore they'd kill him. He was kept in prison sev- eral weeks after the hanging to let things cool down, then on his wish the authorities took him and his children and put 'em on board a ship
 for his old home in Chile. Some say l they never got there, but 1 don't know
 whether that's so or not
 "Rosaria stayed about to get a look at T!burcio as long as he lived and followed him to his grave, then she
 disappeared and l don't know what be come of her"