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Show bs er ee de eee An tellin, é ‘iene * het ‘ a a es ee ae en a sm sty ce aaa Ne aR er nT Gs THE WAR WITH MEXICO 257 treason. Treason, indeed! But so it was; and as the jail was overstocked with others awaiting trial, it was deemed expedient to hasten the execution, and the culprits were sentenced to be hung on the following Friday— hangman’s day. When the concluding words — ‘muerto, muerto, muerto — dead, dead, dead’ — were pronounced by Judge Beaubien, in his solemn and impressive manner, the painful stillness that reigned in the court-room, and the subdued grief manifested by a few by-standers, were noticed not without an inward sympathy. The poor wretches sat with unmovable features; but, I fancied that, under the assumed looks of apathetic indifference, could be read the deepest anguish. When remanded to jail till the day of execution, they drew their serapes more closely around them and accompanied the armed guard.*** 188 Garrard, Lewis H., Wah-to-Yah and The Taos Trail. Hua-to-ya — Ute word meaning ‘‘ The Twins;’’ Dr. E. L. Hewett ascertained this from the Utes on the southern Ute Reservation. the murderers of Governor Bent, Mr. Garrard, who was present at the trial of gives a different account of the killing than that given by Mrs. Scheurich. He says: ‘‘ With Hatcher I visited the house in which Governor Bent was murdered; who, with the district attorney, J. W. Leal, came from Santa Fé to issue a proclamation. While here in Fernandez, with his family, he was, one morning early, roused from sleep by the populace; who, with the aid of the Pueblos de Taos, were collected in front of his dwelling, striving to gain admittance. While they were effecting an entrance, he, with an axe, cut through an adobe wall into another house. The wife of the occupant, a clever though thriftless Canadian, heard him; and with all her strength, rendered him assistance, though she was a Mexican. He retreated to a room, but seeing no way of escaping from the infuriated assailants who trembling and wife fired upon him through a window, he spoke to his weeping ie al cnt seen a a omrnuarattey, ie TOS MONG pe co. ise - children, clinging to him with all the tenacity of love and despair; and taking paper from his pocket, endeavoured to write; but fast losing strength, he commended them to God and his brothers, and fell pierced by a Pueblo ’s ball. Rushing in and tearing off the gray-haired scalp, the Indians bore it away in triumph. ’’ Mr. Garrard gives the facts, as given to him, of the killing of the other Americans and the son of Judge Beaubien, as follows: ‘‘The district attorney, Leal, was scalped alive and dragged through the streets, his relentless persecutors pricking him with lances. After hours of acute suffering he was thrown to one side in the inclement weather. He entreated, implored them A compassionate Mexican at last earnestly to kill him—to end his misery. att afi ror closed the tragic scene by shooting him. Stephen Lee, brother to the General, was killed on his own housetop. — the same Narciso Beaubien, son of the presiding ju dge of this distr eeict young man in our company house at the commencement Insurgents on the search, last fall — with his Indian slave, hid in an out- The of the massacre under a straw-covered trough. thinking they had escaped, were leaving, but a woman-servant to the family — going to the housetop called them with the words — ‘Kill the young ones and they will never be men to trouble us.’ They Swarmed back and eruelly put him to death and scalping him and his slave, thus adding two more to the unfortunate victims of unbounded passion and long-cherished revenge. ‘Narciso had been to Cape Girardeau college below St. Louis for five years; and when he left was proficient in the French, Spanish and English languages, as well as versed in usual college studies. During the route he often |