Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-08 | Page 1 | It Was Not Garcia

IT WAS lOT GARCIA BAXDIT YET LIVES AJTD ENJOYS HIS MEALS IIS IiLS I I A Clever Scheme to Obtain the Price That Wivs Put Upon ills Hctirt Ills Wife Imy lieu ted Tampa Fin March 7The killing I of Manuel Garcia is denied Garcias band on the day that he was reported I killed raided a store at Sebamocha After obtaining what they desired and I were about to mount their horses a volunteer acoylite In the church end a regular soldier both In civilians dress came upon the party In the encounter I one was killed by the acoylite who in turn was frilled This occurred on February 24 in the evening As there I I was a price on Garcias head of SW I 000 from the government and about 1 525000 from the sugar planters In the vicinity there was quite an incentive to claiming that the dead bandit was Garcia Parties who have seen the pictures of the dead bandit taker and I published after his death assert It is not the likeness of Garcia When Garcias wife was asked by the soldiers to go ahd identify the body she attired herself in black and went with them When the party alighted at the station sta-tion she put her handkerchief to her eyes and pretended to be sobbing She then told the she knew the body of her husband and there was no use to look at It She did this to deceiye the soldiers I Is stated that Garcia still lives In the vicinity of the place where he was renorted to have been killed This report comes direct from Seba mocha by a gentleman who was there last Sunday Garcia is a much smaller man than the man killed