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So that others may know …SM A digital reproduction, March 2006 http://www.3rocks.org INTRODUCTORY I have this to say in reference to the record of Vasquez' life and career which follows: It has been gathered from reliable sources, a great portion being corroborated by the confidential statements of Vasquez himself, who for some weeks prior to his “untimely taking off” favored me with frequent interviews, at which times he gave ready answers to all questions pertaining to his past life. I have also traversed Monterey and San Benito Counties, and interviewed relatives, schoolmates, and old acquaintances of the bandit, from whom much important and interesting information was obtained. Since Vasquez suddenly became prominent as the most daring rascal since Joaquin Murieta's time, no full and correct account of his antecedents has been published. I was the Chronicle's special correspondent at Tres Pinos at the time of the tragedy, and also furnished the account of his life published in the Call after his capture. E. T. S. San Jose, May 4th, 1875. A digital reproduction, March 2006 http://www.3rocks.org A digital reproduction, March 2006 http://www.3rocks.org Tiburcio Vasquez HE NAME OF TIBURCIO VASQUEZ has become a part of the history of California. Shakespeare was not wide of the truth when he wrote— The evil that men do lives after them; T The good is oft interred with their bones. And the violent and sanguinary career of this modern Dick Turpin will not be forgotten while civilization maintains a foothold upon this earth. At this particular juncture, now that the last act in the drama is finished, a sketch of the bandit's life and career from boyhood up may not prove uninteresting—to Californians in particular. Tiburcio Vasquez was born in the town of Monterey, in the month of August, 1835. His parents died many years ago. Of the family, three brothers and a sister are now living, viz: Francisco, who resides near Elizabeth Lake, Los Angeles County; Claudio and Antonio Maria, Monterey County; Antonia, the wife of Manuel Larria, who lives in the Vallecitos Valley, Fresno County. His father and mother were quite respectable people, and Tiburcio was brought up like the generality of children. He received a fair common school education, but when it became time for him to turn his abilities to account, he evinced a disposition to let honest labor alone. His boon companions were generally older than himself, and of questionable habits and character. In 1851, when but sixteen years of age, he fell in with Ariastacio Garcia, a noted bandit, who for some time was the terror of 1 2THE LIFE AND CAREER OF Monterey County. At that early period in the history of California, the champions of law and order were unable, in the majority of cases, to put their designs into execution, and Garcia, blackened with crimes for which no atonement had ever been made, came frequently into Monterey and left without being molested. One evening in 1852, Vasquez, accompanied by Garcia, attended a fandango. They had been in the house but a short time, when Garcia became involved in a quarrel with one Jose Guerra. Vasquez took a hand, and when the excitement was at its height, Hardimount, the constable, arrived, and endeavored to exercise his authority. The combatants immediately turned their attention to him, and the result was that in a short space of time he lay dead on the floor, shot through the heart. No arrests were made that night, but the next morning the Vigilantes hanged Guerra. Garcia escaped, but a short time afterwards he was arrested in Los Angeles County, and hanged for the same offense. Vasquez slept on the night of the murder at the house of Chona Garcia, Francisco's sister, but the next morning, learning that the Vigilantes were discussing his case, he left suddenly, and did not return until, through the influence of friends, the affair was allowed to blow over. With this bloody episode, Vasquez' downward career properly commences. Not long afterwards he associated himself with a band of lawless characters whose specialty was horse-stealing. The Vigilantes finally got the upper hand of the gang, and but one or two escaped the halter. Vasquez, shrewd, cunning and selfish, as he always before and afterwards showed himself to be, was one of the latter. He bade a temporary adieu to that section of the State, and found “fresh fields and pastures new” in Santa Clara, Merced, Fresno and Tulare Counties, and for a year or more, A digital reproduction, March 2006 http://www.3rocks.org TIBURCIO VASQUEZ 3 in company with a number of choice spirits, he gave the stock-owners considerable trouble. In 1857 he found himself in Los Angeles County, where he met with an old compadre. Both being financially depressed, it was resolved to enter into some good equine speculation. Accordingly a number of horses were taken without the permission of the owners thereof, and pawned. The officers arrested the pair before they could get off with their booty. Vasquez, though then but twenty-two years of age, was well versed in the hooks and crooks of his own profession, and also tolerably familiar with the complicated machinery of the courts. When in jail, an idea struck him which presented a way of crawling out of his dilemma and breathing the free air once more. He suggested to his comrade that the latter should make certain statements in court on the day of trial by which he (Vasquez) would get clear, and then, in return, he would perform a like service. The other promised, but a talk with the officers induced him to change his tactics somewhat. When the case was called for trial, the partner of Vasquez turned State's evidence, got out of the meshes himself, while the confiding Tiburcio was sent to San Quentin for a term of five years. The prison register shows that he entered the institution on the 26th of August, 1857. On the 25th of June, 1859, he, with several other prisoners, made a break and escaped. The carpenter, George Lee, and the gatekeeper, John Spell, were overpowered and the keys obtained. The guard rallied, and a volley was poured upon the fugitive. Vasquez was shot through the hand. With one comrade, Jesus Mendoza, he traveled on foot through Solano, Yolo and Sacramento Counties, until Jackson, Amador County, was reached. Here Vasquez stole two horses, one for himself and one for his friend. The “myrmidons” of the law got on their track, and overhauled A digital reproduction, March 2006 http://www.3rocks.org 4THE LIFE AND CAREER OF Vasquez on the San Joaquin. On the 17th of August, 1859, he again entered the walls of San Quentin, where he quietly remained until the 13th of August, 1863, when he was released, having served out his time. His confinement did not produce any change in his morals. He had scarcely got accustomed to the rejuvenating influences of open air freedom, before he robbed a fish peddler on the San Joaquin. He was masked at the time, and his victim could give the officers no clue to his identity. For the next two or three years, with the exception of a raid in Tuolumne County, where several horses were run off, he behaved himself, so to speak, by going into the more honest and less dangerous profession of gambling. His headquarters were located at the New Almaden and Enriquita mines. It was at the latter place that Abdon Leiva first saw him, although he did not make his acquaintance. In 1864 an Italian butcher was murdered at Enriquita. One morning he was found dead in his bed, having been shot and stabbed. A large amount of money was missing from the till. A coroner's jury was impaneled, and an inquest held. It became necessary to have a Spanish interpreter, and Vasquez, who was the only native Californian in that vicinity who possessed a fair command of the English language, was selected. Dr. A. J. Cory of San Jose, at present Coroner of Santa Clara County, had charge of the inquest. The witnesses were summoned by J. H. Adams, then and at present Sheriff of Santa Clara County.
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