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that Canalis should retire unassailed to Comargo where their strifes should end; and Malino shoul [d] take his Americans to Saltillio where he & his Mexicans could compromise with the Commander there, and leave the Americans to shift for themselves- In this way two vil~ lains purchased their own personal safety, and basely selling their friends & allies to the foe.- J;'erez apprehended something of the kind and warned Jordan against it- He left in time to save himself, and done it in true Mexican Style; by Stealing a Cavayard of horses- This Parez was sometime employed by Texas as a frontier spy; com- mitted murders and robberies, left Texas went to Sanfernando, and has been since and is now a notorious highway robber- , After the Parbone fight Ross and Switser and Roman returned to Texas- Ross because he had been repudiated by his men & Jordan chosen in his place, and Roman because he could not beat Jordan for their Command- Switser _was killed by Nabors Qr. Ms_. and Ross,,by McColough- . . Hagler and . [blank J fought and died at Guerrero, and after four rounds returned from the field good friends- Hagler was. killed by- Pool.- Hagler, in the charge upon Parbone called a retreat, which for a moment produced great confusion- Dissatisfied with his ill-treatment in Mexico, Jordan, after his return to Texas, commenced raising another force to redress his wrongs and to snatch payment from a people who had recd. his services & then betrayed and insulted him-He was invited by Ariste thro' Col. Kin- ney, to visit him. JDrdan went, and the interview resulted in Jor- dan's abandonment of his enterprise. He went soon after to N. 0. where he died- After the death of Zapata, an irishman by the name of Emmett was saved from the masacre because he claimed to be a• doctor whose services were much needed-but when ·he was put to amputating a limb, he exhibited such a total want of skill & knowledge, that Ariste observed that he might be a good butcher, but was certainly no Surgeon; and ordered him to be executed as the rest of the prisoners- He was, how, ever, pardoned; and is now in Saltillio; and the last I saw of him he was selling Texas lands to some officer in the Army-probably a spuri- ous title- Fisher organized with Canalis at Tenoxticlan, and moved with him for the Riogrande- They had one pi[e] ce of Artillery 4 Iron pounder. which they found at Victoria, spiked- They unspiked it & took ·it along- it was captured from them on Canalis retreat from the in- terior- when he was pursued by Ariste- FURTHER INFORMATION FROM CAPT NEWCOMBE- At Pilona a council was held as to whether they would proceed or return-the majority was for going on. They were lured on by Malino under the promise that they should be paid in the next Town-but when they reached the next town- he always found it too poor to make any requisitions on it or to snatch any booty; the pay was always ahead.- This continued until they
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