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204 CRIMINAL AND JUDICIAL.
years, after which there was an influx of the outlaw
class from the states in rebellion, who naturally took
to the highways, making a pretence of having public
grievances to adjust by private reprisal. It required
A few of his men were captured with him, and several were afterward
taken and executed in southern CaL
A Mexican named Claudio was a contemporary of Murieta, perhaps a
little earlier. During 1852 he kept the southern mines in a state of terrorism.
He was captured in 1853 on his way to .Monterey with 6 of his men by H.
Cocks, justice of the peace at Salinas, who headed a party of 8 resolute men.
Claudio and 5 of his men were killed in the fight with Cocks' party. Ihe
one who escaped was afterward hanged by the people. San Joaquin Valtty
Ariftts, June 13, 1874; Hayes 1 Scraps, CaL Notes, v. 71; Strerfsra Recoil, 155;
Janssens' Vida y Av., 221. Francnco Garcia was the next famous robber, at
the head of a mixed company of Mexicans and ruftianly Saxons. S. F. Allx,
Oct. 22, 1854; Hayes* Scraps, Monterey, 112-13. He was wounded by his own
lieutenants in a ouarrcl over the spoils. One of these, Sebastian Flores,
quarrelling with the other, Beas Angelino, turned state's evidence, and had
Angelino hanged. Garcia, after a bloody career of 17 years, was tried on an
old indictment at San Jose, Flores being detained as a witness. The case was
put off, and at the next session of court Garcia was acquitted. San Jos6 Patri