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Show RENEGADE SHOT TO DEATH. American Leader of Yaqul Indians Executed by Mexican Trooper. The Mexican Herald publishes a report re-port of the capture and execution of John Dyer, the Arizona cowboy and newspaper man who is reputed to have recently proclaimed himself leader of the Yaquis in Sonora. The capture was made by the Fourth battalion bat-talion of Alexican regulars Bear Ba-cum, Ba-cum, state of Sonora, according to the Herald, and be was Immediately tried by court-martial and sentenced to be shot at daylight. Dyer completely broke down and offered to betray the secret plans of the Yaquis and their whereabouts if his life were spared. When the hour for the execution arrived ar-rived two Mexican soldiers had to drag Dyer from his tent to the execution. exe-cution. Dyer, during his brief leadership lead-ership of the Yaquis, earned the name of "El Renegado," on account of his alleged inhuman cruelty to Mexican women and white men. He is said to have hanged two Mexican women and one infant child in a public roadway road-way for carrying provisions to a detachment de-tachment of Mexican troops, j Jack Cleeson, an American prospector, pros-pector, was caught by a band of Yaquis Ya-quis and taken to Dyer's camp, where, instead of receiving his release as he expected on account of being- a countryman coun-tryman of Dyer's, the story goes that he was shot dead by Dyer himself. |