Longitude: -96.795387000000
William Dewees and about half a dozen colonists tracked a band of horse thieves who had recently attacked and murdered a party of Mexican drovers. They caught up with the group at the Brazos River, killing three: Julian Chirino, Vicente Castro, and Felix Mendoza. The colonists decapitated the bodies, placing the heads on a pole as a warning to others.
William B. Dewees, Letters from an Early Settler of Texas (Louisville: Morton Griswold, 1852), 53-54. Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 1, July 1903, 34.
Longitude: -96.795387000000
William Dewees and about half a dozen colonists tracked a band of horse thieves who had recently attacked and murdered a party of Mexican drovers. They caught up with the group at the Brazos River, killing three: Julian Chirino, Vicente Castro, and Felix Mendoza. The colonists decapitated the bodies, placing the heads on a pole as a warning to others.
William B. Dewees, Letters from an Early Settler of Texas (Louisville: Morton Griswold, 1852), 53-54. Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 1, July 1903, 34.