Graham guardian., 1907-06-21
INHUMAN MONSTER SHOT DOWN
Arizona Rangers Cross the Line
and Bring TO Earth a Fiend in
Human Form

On tuesday, June ii, Mobley
and Jake Meadows, two Arizona
rangers, killed Rayn Garcia, near
CaleXico, who was without doubt
one of the most fendish wretches
that ever lived.
Garcia was native of Spain
and was we'll bred and highly edu-
Gated. He came to this country
when u young man and recently
lived in Los Angeles, where he
courted and married pretty
American stenographer, she elop.
ing to become his wife. The couple
went down into Mexico, the girls
half brother accompanying them
and then began an unparalleled
career of cruelty. Garcia estab
lished home near Mecca, Mexico,
and during last summer stole sew
eral cattle. He was pursued, but
managed to kill the owner of the
cattle from ambush. He feared
his wife and brother in law would
betray him so he lured them to
an Indian camp in Mexico not far
from Yuma. He there tied them
to trees in the forest and allowed
his wife to watch her brother starve
to death, giving her just enough
food to keep her alive. When
her brother, whose name was AL
len, died, he forced her to dig her
brothers grave and bury him.
About this time Julio Martinez
and f. S. Wheeler heard where
Garcia was and went after him,
They found him and q battle en-.
sued, during which Martinez re.
ceived a wound which may cost
bim his arm if not his life.
After the death of her brotho
Mrs. Garcia seized the first oppor-
tunity to write home, sen ding the
following letter:
Dec. IA, 1906. Mr.. E F. Vale,
Santa Monica, California. Dear
Sir:--As l have a chance to write
you, will do so. l have not stated
where | am, for l do not know.
| am near no town, bul this will
be mailed at Yuma, Arizona, by a
good honest friend, that fed me
when was hungry, and gave me
clothes to hide my person when l
had none. Mr.. Dale, you know
the reason | left was to get away
from Raynundo, after he tried to
kill me there. He thought some,
thing wrong and followed me,
with five others. Brother and l
thought we would not go home by
train, but across the country, so
we started and got as far as Ban
ming, California, and brother and
l went to work on a fruit farm.
Raynundo came there with his
gang; you can imagine the rest.
He stole some horses at Mecca,
California, and brother and l had
to go with him or be killed. So
we stopped in canon near whore
he stole the horses. The man
tracked US there and come for his
horses. Not saying a word or
Offering to do thing only asked
for his horses-then happened the
most cold blooded murder ever
heard of. He shot the man through
the heart and then shot the whole
top Of his head off. His brains
was scattered all over the ground,
and l can see him yet as he fell,
and Ray commenced whistling
waltz We next made little town
on the desert, left the horses and
took the train for Yuma and left
the train there and walked to
where we are now, about 100 miles
from Yuma and have been afoot
ever since. ! got sick and we had
to stop for rest, and then he had
a chance to butcher poor Lawrence
Poor brother died the death Of a
dog, and suffered all the tortures
of hell and my punishment was in
watching him tortured and starved
to death, unnble to help him in
any way, and after his death he
was kicked and stomped in the
head-thrown in hole with no
box or coffin or anything, not even
clothing, only what he had on
when he died, and little dirt
thrown over him.
We stayed right where he was
buried Is days, and Is days after
he was buried the coyotes dug him
up and left him for the buzzards
to pick his bones, and | begged so
hard for them to bury him over
that Ray shot his dead body twice