The Washington times., 1907-07-07

She spared nothing, but related in de-
tail his terrible atrocities. including the
alleged murder OF her brother. Law
renee Long. who. she says, was poi
soned after being tied TO a tree and
starved nearly to death.
She says the recent report that her
husband was shot near the Mexican
border by Deputy Sherlffs Mobley and
Meadows is fictitious She declares
that no one wIs shot there, but that
Cara persisted later on the Mexican
desert. and that she received a letter
last Wednesday aDprising her Of the
fact
Got the Wrong Man.
Deputy Constable Julio Martinez. of
1921 Maud street. who was shot by
Cara in a former encounter. said:
They got the wrong man. l am
sure Of that. 1 have letters from
friends The man they shot was an
other outlaw by the name Of CARA.
The one they were after IS still at
large IL Mexico"
United States Marshal Bert Frank
I'm insists that there can have been
mo mistake about tie right mans hav-
ing been killed.
Mrs. Garza's story follows:
we left Santa Monica last August
MY husband had treated me so cruelty
that / determined 10 leave him. but on
the advice of my brother MI Long. we
all three set out for Mexico. At Mecca
my husband stole three horses and that
was when the trouble began.
= we fed TO q lonely canyon. where We
almost died Of thirst and hunger. We
managed TO Kill a coyote and eat it.
One morning we heard hoofbeats and
my husband announced thar there was
some one coming and that he intended TO
kill him. Ny brother and 1 pleaded with
him not to commit murder, but when
the stranger appeared he was shot
through the heart and the head. faint
ed: when 1 came TO my husband was
searching the dead mans pockets. He
took his money. watch and gun and
finally ate his lunch.
Cared for by Indians.
I'VE made our way from there 70 sal
ton Sea. and then to Yuma Here we all
three swan the Colorado river. helping
ourselves across by catching at drift
wood. and we finally came 90 an Indian
camp I was sick by this time and the
Indians took care of me for some time
But we learned that the officers were on
our iTdll ana SLdIleQ buA dEHii Oll lUbL-
My brother and 1 were both seeking an
opportunity to escape from my hus-
band. but he watched US closely.
I'VE came to the Colorado river again
and attempted 10 swim across IL for the
second time. but succeeded only inreach-
ing an island in the middle. There we
lived for five days with absolutely moth
ing 10 eat but some mesquite, berries
and two rattlesnakes, which we killed.
:. I tore my dress into shreds and we sci
about trying 10 make raft by tying
brushwoOd together with the cloth. Bur
when we had reached midstrCam on the
raft il Tell 10 pieces and We not only
had TO swim 10 shore. but lost OuI
clothes. which we had tied up into bun
dies. For four days we had to travel
without clothes and were burned C
blisters by the scOrching sun. Finally
my husband stole some shirts and pan
falcons from a ranch house. and weni
-on attired as man for over -four weeks
During seven days of that time we haC
nothing but one coyote to eat.
After while my husband insisted
that we must flee from there, and we
went into a lonely canyon, where b,
remarked to my brother one day that
ne knew too much and must die. w,
were unarmed and he succeeded IN tying
both my brother and myself to trees
where he kept US captives for hfteer
days. was lOosened at night. but my
brother was simply allowed TO lower
himself to a sitting posture. He wa.
giveE nothing to eat
Kill me- he pleaded with Raymund
but let sister live
Kills Wife's Brother.
but his pleadinCs were Of no avail
on the fifteenth day he was released
and my husband. who had succeeded il
procuring some laudanum. put ii in hi
food so that he died within three hour
after he had eaten.
FINALLY he reached what Is known a.
the Dominique ranch. This was in No
vember Arrangements were made Their
whereby we were TO have a small rancl
to work twenty-five miles from any hu
man being
1T was while we were living at tina
place that my husband announced to m
one day. I am going 10 kill you II
began digging a grave in which he I'm
tended 10 bury me alive.
Il started TO pray and hardly had
begun when the officers arrived an
began shooting I was struck by tire
bullets and my husband by one II
fed I was left there bleeding.
pleaded to be taken to the America
Side. but the officers said that the
dared not take me there, and deserte
me.
Finally I made my way back to III
Dominguez ranch and was preparing t
leave for the United States when m
husband arrived and stabbed me in tn
breast. I escaped from him at last b
persuading a miner 10 put him TO wor
: in a mine and then while ne was in IN
shaft I told my story and they helpc
me out. / rode two days on a mule Z
Calexico. where gave myself up. wa
taken to Riverside and liberated
Mrs Cara states that she is absC
lutelv destitute. She desires to go [
FL Paso, where she says she has a
aunt but she declares she must Deepen
upon charity 10 get sufficient none
with which TO make the trip.