The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-10-26
Missives From Maid Also Found
on Body of Vaqnero HOstler
Who Murdered Capitalist
and Wounded Senorita
JEALOUSY LOOMS UP AS
MOTIVE FOR SHOOTING
All Night Chase Through County
Closes With Fatal Duel in
Road When Auto Over
takes Racehorse
DESPERATE SWORE HE
WOULD KILL OTHERS
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

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~ AN JOSE Oct. 25.-Manuel
~ Garcia, the young vaquero-
X hostler of the Quezada family
at College Park. who escaped
on racehorse after killing Simeon
Romero. Monterey capitalist, and
seriously wounding Miss Belen
Quezada, late last night, met an auto
mobile load of deputy sheriffs near
Warm Springs, Alameda county, at
noon today and was fatally wounded
in short but exciting battle.
The thoroughbred, behind which
Garcia sought refuge while he fired
on the posse, was killed instantly by
a bullet from a heavy bore rife.
When Garcia fell he was placed in the
automobile and rushed to- San Jose.
but died on the stone floor of the
county jail here, priest on one side,
a doctor on the othef, and a score OF
bare headed, grave faced deputy
sherifs grouped around. Garcia was
killed by charge of buckshot that
struck him in the head. He never re-
gained consciousness.
Jealousy as Motive
Interesting bits of information
gathered tonight strengthen the
theory that jealousy prompted the
shooting in the Quezada home. Miss
Belen was accustomed TO taking long
rides with her groomsman, and he
was her escort even on shopping trips
in San Jose. Young men who allowed
their eyes to rest too long upon her
pretty face were usually transhxed
with a resentful glance from her SER
want escort. Then, too. the postal
cards written by the young woman,
and found in the possession of the
dead man, indicated very friendly
feeling on the pars OF the writer
While their contents were kept secret
the statement that they were of pri-
vate nature did not Send to strengthen
the assertions of the family that their
daughter was not interested in her
groomsman. and that insanity prompted
the shooting. The several pictures of
his pretty employer which he kept next
to his heart is taken as an indication
that Garcia az least cherished secret
love for her.
Miss Belen went into Mysteries today
when an attempt was made to question
her in regard to Garcia. Garcia's room
at the Quezada home indicates great
fondness for pictures of types of the
wild and woolly west
Thrilling Man Hunt
The battle between the vaquero and
the officers ended the most exciting
chase the county has seen since the
day that loo man hunters and blood
hounds took to the mountains in pur-
suit of Jim Dunham. slayer of the
Mckinney family of Campbell. All
night long the officers secured the
roads of this county. Alameda county
down the coast had been warned and
within an hour after the killing depu-
ties were posted on all main highways.
The San Jose deputies were armed with
short shotguns and rifles and threaded
the roads in automobiles
At o'clock this morning the first
clew as to Garcfa's whereabouts was
received from the Quezada family
themselves. Garcia called them up on
the long distance telephone and asked
how Romero was His voice was recog-
nized and he was told that Romero
was badly hurt. but would recover.
This information probably led to his
undoilsg, for he made his pressnce