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The latter told us of an assassination of the Deputy to the legislation from this district. The [[strikethrough]] assasin [[/strikethrough]] four or five people concerned in the assassination were arrested & placed in jail & Col. Ugarte the Jefe from Valles with some with some soldiers took command of the town. Then it was claimed that the prisoners were about to escape & the entire lot of them were shot in jail under the 'ley fuga' and then Col. Ugarte returned to Valles again.

The Jefe in telling us of this said that our circumstances required The killing of these men to prevent their escape & ended with a suggestive smile. This town is strung along the bottom of a narrow gulch & has the tumble down appearance of a poor town in a poor district