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him into prison because they found on him answers from Father Hidalgo, Allende and all the rest of the chiefs of the )Iexican revolu- tion. }fenchaca was a Captain.
Don Juan Garcia Caza was taken from San Antonio to )fonclova and beheaded, his head having been brought to San Antonio and exposed to the public view- His crime was that his name appeared in one of the letters which liad been addressed to 1\Ienchaca from ::\Iexico. He was accused by :Father Juan 1lanuel Zambrano who exacted all the proceedings of the case against the said Caso.- Juan Garcia Caso was captain of one of the auxiliary companies that came from Nuevo Leon under the command of Colonels Don Simon de Herrera and Don Geronimo Herrera.- He came in 1808. B:e was the chief c01n- mander of the forces in San Antonio when he was put in prison. Simon de Herrera, Geronimo Herrera and Salcedo were put in prison in San Antonio by ,Juan Manuel Zambrano.
General Toledo was of small stature, well formed and of beautiful coun ten an ce.
SANTA ANNA Statement by Captain Antonio 1\Ienchaca
When Santa Anna came to San Antonio in the year 1813 he was a youth 16 or 17 years old. When he was a cadet in the army which was commanded by Don Joaquin de Arredondo y 1fiofio, he knew how to forge the signature of Arredondo so that the commissary ge3:1eral might pay him five hundred pesos from the national Treasury. The money was delivered to him and afterwards a Council of war was formed for said crime, he being condemned to imprisonment in the Garete Nueva about two miles from San Antonio. Santa Anna was accustomed to stay with the mistress of Arredondo- Her name was Pio Quinta she was of regular stature and pretty- She came with Arredondo from Mexico. In the year 183G Santa Anna deceived :Melchora Iniega Barrera, a young woman of 17 years and very beautiful- It happened as fol- lows.-Santa Anna not being able to obtain the favors of the Senorita l\felchora said that he would marry her. He arranged for one of his sergeants to disguise himself as a priest and in this manner the mar- riage was celebrated. When he returned to ::\Iexico he made the said sergeant, who performed the ceremony, marry 1Iclchora for which he gave him the rank of Colonel in the Army. 'l'he Senorita l\folchora belongea to one of the best families of San Antonio- Santa Anna lodged in the house of her father and it was in that manner that he returned the hospitality
Arredondo was a man of middling size very fleshy and good looking. He had a cataract over one eye. He was 50 years old.
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