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After a short pause the former \"boy sheriff\"\nreached back into his memory and called forth\n\"...Faustino Lorenzana, he made a regular business out of horse stealing, but we could never catch\nhim\"... \"He and one of the Rodriguez boys were concerned in the killing of Jack Sloan. This was in\n1865.\"\nIndeed this was the case, because no sheriff's posse or vigilante mob could ever take Lorenzana, and any\nnumber of them tried. He fought it out with four Santa Cruz sheriffs: John T. Porter, Ambrose Calderwood,\nAlbert Jones, and Charlie Lincoln.\nEven Matt Tarpy and his hooded vigilance committee trailed him around the countryside but none could ever\nlay a hand on him. Sometimes operating with the Rodriguez brothers and sometimes in the company of his\ninfamous cousin Tiburcio Vasquez, he roamed throughout central California doing just about whatever he\npleased.\nTo the staid \"yankees\" of Santa Cruz he was a horse thief and murderer - plain and simple. His depredations\nwere not to be tolerated. After the Sloan killing the State of California offered a $500 reward for his capture\nand the County of Santa Cruz added another $300, making him the most sought after man in the history of the\nCounty.\nHowever across the San Lorenzo River, to the Spanish people of the Pueblo de Branciforte he was a son, a\nbrother, a cousin, a childhood friend, and a neighbor. They secreted him in their homes when he was in the\narea, and brought food and other supplies up to his many mountain hideouts. He was called \"Charole,\" said to\nmean the \"lantern that leads.\"\nIn time he achieved a certain degree of stature as a hero and legendary bandit to the people of old\nBranciforte. Some of the Spaniards even named their children after him. He was a game fighter, loyal to his\nfriends, and in the end, like most legendary bandits, he died with his boots on.\n1\n\n�But just what was he really? A hero? Legend? A good boy gone bad? Or a cold blooded killer? The answer to\nthis question may never be known because what he was depends upon whom you ask.\nFaustino de Jesus Lorenzana was born January 15, 1835 at his parents adobe at Branciforte. He was the\neleventh child of Macedonio Lorenzana and Romualda Lorenzana y Vasquez.\nHis father was a full-blooded Menteranea Indian who had been born at Mexico City in 1787 (?)]. Orphaned as\na child, he was raised at the famous Lorenzana Orphanage in Mexico City. Like all other foundlings he was\ngiven the surname Lorenzana, a practice which was quite common at the time.\nOn June 2, 1800 he sailed, in the company of several other children, from San Blas for Alta California on the\nfrigate Concepcion. Upon arrival he was placed in the home of Francisco Castro, a resident of San Jose. While\nstill in his teens he joined the Spanish Army and was stationed at the garrison in San Francisco. On June 8,\n1816 he married Maria Romualda Vasquez at Mission Santa Clara. She was the daughter of Antonio Vasquez\nand Maria Leocadia, an Indian neophyte of the Mission.\nIn 1828 the Lorenzana family moved to Branciforte where Macedonio served the pueblo in various capacities,\nincluding secretary in 1835 and 1839, a member of the council in 1838, and second alcalde in 1845 and 1846.\nBefore his death in 1863, he sired sixteen children by Romualda.\nTheir son Faustino spent his childhood years in the company of his many brothers and cousins prowling about\nBranciforte. The pueblo was a sleepy little village which was the center of activities for the numerous ranchos\nwhich were spread out around it. The only formal education he received was from the padres at the small\nMission school across the river from Branciforte. Even this was scant and of a religious nature.\nHis real education came at the hands of the vaqueros who tended the vast herds of cattle roaming across the\narea. From them he learned horsemanship, the use of a pistol, a riata, a branding iron, and the many other\narts and sciences of the rodeo. When he was old enough, he went to work on his father's farm next to\nBranciforte Creek and at the Rodriguez' Ranchos in the Live Oak district.\nThe 1830s and 1840s were a good time for a Spanish boy to grow up in California. Indeed there was plenty of\nhard work to be done, but what young Lorenzana enjoyed most were the weekends in the pueblo. There were\nbear and bull fights which were held in a special ring down on the flats between Branciforte Creek and the San\nLorenzo River, and scrub races along the main street of the pueblo. Gambling on these events was always\nheavy.\nThe horse races attracted many of the young vaqueros from all around the central\ncoast. One who rode over from Monterey was Faustino's cousin Tiburcio Vasquez.\nHe was a superb horseman and always a popular rider during the matches.\nWeekends at the pueblo would invariably feature a fandango complete with it's\nmusic, dancing, drinking, gambling, and general rough-housing. It was a special\noccasion filled with gaiety and merriment where quite often knives were drawn in\nanger as two young men squared off during the course of an argument over a card\ngame or the attentions of a young lady. Pride played a great part in such quarrels.\nTiburcio Vasquez\n\nThe Lorenzanas, like most of the young men of Branciforte, were a rough and\ntumble lot, excitable, sometimes quick to anger, and always seeking an adventure.\n2\n\n�But they were a close knit family who always watched one another's backs and protected their own. Most of\nthe boys found themselves in trouble with the law at sometime. Usually for some petty offense which they\nreceived a small fine or a few days in jail. But the eldest Jose Jesus was arrested twice on assault charges,\nFacundo, a talented musician, for grand larceny and assault, and Juan who served six years in San Quentin for\nthe murder of George Wise at the Refugio Rancho in 1862. But it was Faustino who was to really to make a\nname for himself.\nHis first known brush with the law came in December of 1859, when he was 24 years of age. Sheriff John T.\nPorter was called over to Branciforte to break up a drunken brawl which was taking place at a Saturday night\nfandango. As he stepped in with his pistol at the ready, all of the belligerents backed down except Faustino,\nwho was cursing loudly in Spanish. It was necessary for Porter and his men to jump Lorenzana and drag him\nbodily off to jail. This was to be the only time that he would ever submit to arrest.\nAt the time, the jail was a small wooden building located at the upper plaza near the old Mission. It consisted\nof two cells made of timbers about one foot thick and lined with sheet iron. There were no windows and only\none door, fitted with a large lock. The County did not employ a jailor, so the key to the jail was in the\npossession of a citizen who would take the prisoners out to a restaurant twice a day for their meals.\nWhile awaiting trial, Faustino Lorenzana and two fellow prisoners managed to pick the lock to their cells and\nmake good their escape. After several days of freedom he returned to his family's home at Branciforte where\nhe was recaptured and brought back to jail.\n\nPart II\nWhen the grand jury convened in early February, 1860, an indictment for assault with a deadly weapon was\nfound against him. The Lorenzana family hired the redoubtable Joe Skirm to represent Faustino in court. The\nflamboyant attorney picked apart the indictment, claiming that when it was drawn up the defendant's\nChristian name was incorrectly given, the place where the crime was supposedly committed was not stated,\nnor was the weapon used in the alleged assault described. After these technical points were raised, the court\nhad no other option but to dismiss the charges. Lorenzana was a free man and he would never again see the\ninside of a jail.\nHe then joined a band of horse thieves and cattle rustlers who were working the Monterey Bay area. Their\nnumber included his cousin Tiburcio Vasquez, who had recently emerged from San Quentin where he served a\nterm for grand larceny. They drove their herds of stolen stock down to the southern counties where they were\nsold, and during the return trip they would steal horses and cattle along the way and peddle them here. This\nwas to become Lorenzana's trade mark.\nThe year 1864 found Faustino and Vasquez in the Santa Clara Valley trying their hand at gambling and other\npetty crimes among the miners at the New Almaden mines. On the night of June 4, 1864, they sat in a saloon\nplaying cards when Joseph Pelligrini, a butcher doing business at the Enriquita Mine, walked into the place.\nThe two men could see that the Italian was flush, so when he left the place they followed him home.\nIt was about 11 o'clock, while Pelligrini was preparing to retire for the night when Lorenzana and Vasquez\nbroke into the house. A terrible struggle ensued during which the butcher was shot and stabbed several times.\nThey robbed him of $400 and hurriedly left.\n3\n\n�The following morning the murder was discovered and Santa Clara County Sheriff John Hicks Adams was called\nin. Adams, a very competent lawman, called for an inquest. At the hearing he\nfound that he needed an interpreter because none of those to be questioned\ncould speak English. The only people around who were bi-lingual, were none\nother than Faustino Lorenzana and Tiburcio Vasquez, who they were called upon\nto interpret.\nNeedless to say the inquest found that \"the deceased came to his death from a\npistol bullet fired by some person or persons unknown.\" A few days later, Sheriff\nAdams received information which led him to the conclusion that the murder had\nbeen committed by Lorenzana and Vasquez. But he did not deem the evidence\nsufficient to warrant an arrest and by then Vasquez had moved on to Sonoma\nCounty and Lorenzana returned to Santa Cruz.\n\nJohn Hicks Adams\n\nBack home, Faustino divided his time between Branciforte and Whisky Hill, getting by as best he could. On\nWednesday, February 8, 1865, a fandango was held at the Juan Perez adobe which was located at the end of\nGarfield Street on the east bank of the San Lorenzo River (near the present site of the County Government\nCenter). Among those attending the festivities were the Lorenzana and Rodriguez boys from the pueblo. Also\nthere was 25 year old Juan Arana, who lived in the Live Oak district above the gulch which now bears the\nfamily name.\nDuring the evening a fight broke out between Lorenzana and Arana. The latter pulled out a knife and slashed\nFaustino across the shoulder and arm. Being unarmed, he wisely withdrew vowing revenge upon Arana.\nHowever, he did not have to wait very long to carry out his threat because on the evening of Saturday,\nFebruary 11, he and two other men - his nephew Pedro Lorenzana, and Jose Rodriguez, a neighbor - rode out\nto Arana Gulch and stationed themselves in a grove of trees next to the bridge at the bottom of the gulch.\nTheir plan was to ambush Juan Arana as he returned home after working in the woods.\nPedro was the 18 year old son of Jose Jesus Lorenzana, Faustino's eldest brother. He was a luckless boy who\nwould blindly follow his uncle anywhere and on any adventure. At 15, he had stolen a neighbor's horse to\nattend a dance at Monterey and was subsequently arrested for grand larceny. But Pedro was freed when the\nneighbor refused to press charges.\nThe other man who rode with them that night was Jose Rodriguez, son of Facundo and Guadalupe Rodriguez\nand a grandson of Don Alejandro Rodriguez of Rancho Encinalito. At 18 he was already a handsome, strapping\nlad standing well over six feet tall and weighing about two hundred pounds. He was both strong and smart,\nand in his belt he carried two pistols.\nAt sometime between 8 and 9 o'clock they heard the clatter of horses' hoofs starting across the wooden\nbridge. Peering out from behind their shelter, they were disappointed to see that it was not Juan Arana, but\ntwo yankees who were passing by. So they pulled back and waited. The two riders were John W. Towne,\nCounty Supervisor from the Soquel district, and his brother-in-law, Jack Sloan. As they were crossing the\nbridge their horses were startled upon glimpsing the men in the trees.\n\"Who the hell are you?,” Sloan demanded of the three men.\n\n4\n\n�At this Faustino emerged from the trees, drew his revolver, and fired a warning shot into the air. The report of\nthe pistol sent the American's horses galloping up the hill and out of the gulch.\nThe Californios, realizing that they had now missed their chance at revenge, started back towards Branciforte.\nAfter they had ridden about one hundred and fifty yards they heard a horseman behind them. It was Jack\nSloan.\nWhen Towne and Sloan had finally recovered control over their mounts, they were near the rim of the gulch\nwhere the lower road to Soquel Landing branched off. Then quite unexpectedly, Jack Sloan, a veteran of the\nMexican War, who was unarmed, decided to return. Towne, knowing that his companion was a foul-tempered\nman, tried to persuade him from doing such a rash thing. But Sloan could not be swayed and returned to the\ngulch alone.\nUpon seeing the three men moving along the bottom of the creek bed, Sloan rode up and demanded to know\nwho they were. Getting no response, he began beating them with a coiled lariat, demanding that they identify\nthemselves.\nFinally Faustino turned around with his revolver drawn and replied,\n\"You son of a bitch, I'll kill you anyhow.\"\nBut Sloan grabbed his arm, preventing him from firing.\n\"Help me boys!\", shouted Lorenzana.\nJose Rodriguez was the first one into action. He rode over and shot Sloan twice, once in the chest and once in\nthe arm. The American fell from his horse freeing Lorenzana, who immediately fired a bullet into Sloan's groin.\nIt was a mortal wound and within fifteen minutes he bled to death. The assailants dashed back up the hill\ntowards Branciforte.\n\nPart III\nWord of the killing spread quickly through Santa Cruz and before long there was a large posse in the saddle led\nby Sheriff Ambrose Calderwood and his deputies Albert Jones and Charlie Lincoln. They went out to Arana\nGulch, located the body and sent it back to town while they questioned some of the Californios in the Live Oak\ndistrict. From a farmer living along the Soquel Road, they learned the names of Jose Rodriguez, Faustino\nLorenzana, and Pedro Lorenzana.\n\nAmbrose Calderwood\n\nIn the darkness of night, the posse, by now over a hundred men strong - heavily\narmed and carrying lanterns - rode through Branciforte and stopped at the Rodriguez\nadobe. The angry group was met at the door by Guadalupe Rodriguez. Her husband\nFacundo was away working in the Santa Clara Valley at the time. Behind her stood six\nsmall children, including her three sons, Narciso, Garcia, and Philadelphia. She was\nwell known to the members of the posse. Her maiden name had been Robles. She\nwas a daughter of Jose Antonio Robles, one of the first settlers of Branciforte and\nsister to Avelino and Fulgencio Robles, wild young men who had met their deaths at\nthe end of a gun during an earlier decade. She was a fiercely protective mother who\nhad always pampered her handsome son, Jose.\n5\n\n�She disliked \"gringos\" and on this night she made no attempt to hide it. When they pushed their way into her\nhome, she charged them screaming, swinging, and kicking. Her young children also joined in the assault.\nGuadalupe was bound and carried away to be tried later for attempted murder. Jose, found hiding in the back\nof the house, was also taken and placed in a cell with his mother. It was a sight that the other children would\nlong remember.\nThen the posse went next door to the home of Bernarda Juarez y Lorenzana and searched the adobe for the\ntwo Lorenzanas. Not able find them there, they arrested Bernarda's son Pedro Juarez on the charge of being\nan accessory to murder, claiming that he had helped the men escape.\nThey then continued on up into Blackburn Gulch to the ranch of Mattias Lorenzana just off of Vine Hill Road.\nMattias, a brother of Faustino's, was married to Maria Concepcion Rodriguez, eldest daughter of Facundo and\nGuadalupe Rodriguez. Both were also arrested and hauled away, leaving five small children unattended. But\nno sign of the two killers was found so the posse went back to town.\nMost of the mob was still milling around the plaza when word was received that Faustino and Pedro\nLorenzana had been seen heading out across country towards the beach at San Andreas. Within minutes\nCalderwood and Jones with a dozen hand-picked men were galloping along the Soquel Road in pursuit.\nA short time later they were following the Lorenzana's trail up the beach for about a mile until it veered\nnorthward, striking out across the farmlands. It quickly became obvious that the pair were heading towards\nWhiskey Hill, so the posse hurried on. Later that afternoon they found Pedro Lorenzana hiding in an old adobe\nnear Corralitos. He surrendered without a fight and made a full confession on the\nspot. He was then handcuffed and taken back to Santa Cruz where he joined the\nothers in jail.\nDeputy Jones was dispatched to Whiskey Hill in an attempt to apprehend the other\noutlaw, but he received no cooperation from the residents of the village.\nMeanwhile Faustino had stolen a another horse and on this fresh mount sped\nfurther ahead of his pursuer, so all that Jones got for his trouble was a glimpse of\nhim as he made his escape into the Santa Cruz Mountains.\nThere were seven prisoners now crowding into the small wooden jail up on\nDeputy Albert Jones\nMission Hill. Sheriff Calderwood began to hear all kinds of rumors. Some said that\nan attempt would be made by the local Californios to free the prisoners, while\nothers claimed that the Americans were planning to march on the jail and lynch Rodriguez and Lorenzana. To\nprevent either of these from occurring, the sheriff decided to separate the killers. Jose Rodriguez was sent\nover to the Santa Clara County jail where he would remain until his trial.\nFor the next few months emotions ran high around Santa Cruz County. The local newspapers printed the usual\nnumber of bigoted articles which only served to fan the flames of vigilantism by pointing the finger of\nsuspicion at all \"greasers\" and urging the citizens to do what was necessary to rid the community of\n\"undesirable\" elements. A vigilance committee under the leadership of Watsonville resident Matt Tarpy\nprowled unchecked about the area terrorizing any poor Spaniard who happened to fall into their hands.\nOne day they caught Juan Arana on the Soquel Road and hauled him off of his horse and surrounded him with\nguns drawn.\n6\n\n�\"You're a god damn horse thief!\", growled Tarpy.\nHe looked around at his men and then continued,\n\"He don't look much like the fellow we're after, boys, but let's string him up on general principles\nanyhow, so if anymore horses are stolen nobody can say that this greaser did it, an if he should steal a\nhorse after we let him go we'd be blamed for it. What d'ye say, boys?\"\nArana got down on his knees and begged for his life. In the back of the crowd he spied a man he had known\nfrom childhood. The man implored his fellows to spare the young Spaniard, reasoning that nothing would be\ngained by taking his life. Finally the vigilantes agreed to let him go.\nLawmen from up and down the State were on the lookout for Faustino Lorenzana. On March 18, California\nGovernor Frederick Low authorized a $500 reward for his capture and the County of Santa Cruz upped the\nante by offering a $300 bounty of its own. The $800 total made him the most sought-after bandit in the State\nat the time.\nThe Rodriguez and Lorenzana families languished in jail for almost three months before their trials were finally\nheld during the May Session of the County Court. The first action taken by the jury was to indict Faustino\nLorenzana, Jose Rodriguez, and Pedro Lorenzana for the murder of Jack Sloan. Then Guadalupe Rodriguez was\ntried for assault with intent to commit murder. The Jury found her not guilty after being out for only fifteen\nminutes. Next, Pedro Juarez, charged as an accessory to murder, was tried and acquitted, but an indictment\nfor grand larceny was lodged against him when he was unable to produce a bill of sale for a horse found in his\npossession when arrested. The panel declared him guilty and he was sentenced to a term of three years at San\nQuentin. Finally all of the indictments against Mattias and Concepcion Lorenzana were dismissed on a motion\nby District Attorney Edmund Pew.\nMeanwhile, Pedro Lorenzana sat in his cell and waited as his lawyers were granted one postponement after\nanother. On the night of June 1, 1865, he and another prisoner, a slippery character named \"Jim Bones\" Allen\nescaped from jail by sawing through the bars on the door. Lorenzana escorted Allen safely to the San Jose\nRoad (Graham Hill Road) before he returned willingly to jail.\nAbout two weeks later, the jailor who was sleeping in a small room attached to the jail, was awakened by\nPedro, who was heard rattling the door to his cell and shouting that the jail was on fire. Upon investigation, it\nwas found that indeed the building was burning and the deputy had just enough time to release the\nfrightened inmate before the flames completely consumed the old jail. Sheriff Calderwood suspected arson\nalthough he was never able to find any evidence to support that belief.\nPedro, who was the only prisoner at the time, was locked up in a room on the second floor of the Hugo Hihn\nflat-iron building which was then being used as a temporary courthouse, and an armed guard was posted in\nfront of his door. One of those who was stationed there was Uriah Sloan, brother of the murdered man.\nA few nights later during Sloan's shift a group of hooded men surged up the stairs and overpowered the guard\n- who put up no resistance. The mob broke into Lorenzana's makeshift cell and dragged him down Willow\nStreet to the wharf. They tied a weight to his legs and threw him into the Bay. It was a clean operation, no\nwitnesses and no body.\n\n7\n\n�Part IV\nThe action of the vigilantes may have put an end to Pedro Lorenzana's life, but it also effectively ended the\nmurder case against Jose Rodriguez. They had hushed up the prosecution's only witness so that when his trial\nwas held, the jury found Rodriguez not guilty of the charge of murder without even retiring for deliberations.\nNo witness, no case. But this was not the last that Santa Cruz County was to hear from Jose Rodriguez.\nFollowing his escape from the posse, Faustino Lorenzana lit out for southern San Benito County where he\nwent into hiding near the Panoche Valley in an area known as Vallecitos. This was a favorite hang out for a\nnumber of the Spanish bandido gangs. From there, they could safely raid the ranches on both sides of the\nCoast Range and the San Joaquin Valley, for seldom would a lawman dare to venture into this rugged territory.\nA decade earlier, Joaquin Murrieta had brought his horse gangs to this hideout, and now Tiburcio Vasquez was\na frequent visitor.\nIt was a common practice among these outlaws to assume a gang name or a nickname. So many of them were\nwanted men that it was deemed unwise to use their real names for fear of discovery. The nickname given to\nLorenzana at this time was \"Charole\", said to mean \"the lantern that leads.\"\nHe rode with Vasquez, Procopio, Juan Soto and others throughout the region stealing every head of livestock\nwhich they could get their hands on. A favorite target of the gangs was the Miller and Lux ranch which lay at\nthe foot of the Coast Range. The spread was so large that they did not seem to miss the many dozen heads of\ncattle that the rustlers ran off.\nEven though there was a price on his head, \"Charole\" would sneak back into Santa Cruz from time to time in\norder to visit his family. On these occasions he would usually stay at the ranch of his brother Mattias. During\none such clandestine visit during the fall of 1865, he was holed up in an old cabin on the back side of the\nranch. Sheriff Ambrose Calderwood received an anonymous tip telling him where \"Charole\" could be found.\nWishing to collect the $800 in reward money, he rode up to the outlaw's lair.\nIt was dark by the time he arrived at the ranch and he found that the cabin was not lighted. Calderwood tied\nhis horse to a nearby tree and proceeded to edge his way across the porch. Drawing his pistol, he cautiously\nentered the building. Suddenly Lorenzana pounced on him from out of the darkness and a fierce hand to hand\nstruggle occurred.\nThe sheriff squeezed off one shot before being struck repeatedly with a large knife. The bullet took effect as\n\"Charole\" staggered during the attack. Unable to pull the trigger again, Calderwood swung the barrel again\nand again making contact with his assailant. But the wounded outlaw completely overpowered him, knocking\nhim to the floor, and jamming the knife once more into his shoulder. By the time the lawman got to his feet,\nLorenzana was gone.\nDefeated, Sheriff Calderwood made his way back to town with blood flowing from three deep knife wounds in\nhis body. It would be more than a month before he could get back on the job. The desperate encounter also\nleft him partially blind in one eye.\n\"Charole\" remained in hiding up in the Santa Cruz Mountains while he recovered from the bullet wound in his\nupper arm. His friends and family brought him food and ammunition, and kept him well supplied with\ninformation on the latest movements by the local law enforcement officers. He let his hair grow long and\n8\n\n�disguised himself with a heavy beard. He made an occasional trip down to Vallecitos to sell the horses that he\nwould steal during his raids on the ranches around Santa Cruz and in the Pajaro Valley.\nOn the night of May 17, 1866, he corralled several horses and mules from the residence of the Widow Shearer\nnear Waddell Creek and drove them to his mountain camp above the Laguna district, north of Santa Cruz.\nUpon getting a report of the crime, newly-elected sheriff Albert Jones, who knew Lorenzana by sight, decided\nto try his hand at collecting the reward.\nHe rode up the coast and tracked the bandit for a couple of miles back into the hills. Upon rounding a sharp\nturn in the narrow trail, he was taken by surprise when \"Charole\" suddenly stepped into the path, covering\nhim with a pistol. He ordered the sheriff to throw down his weapon and dismount.\nThe lawman hastily complied with the demands as Lorenzana continued to point the pistol in his direction.\nGrowling that he knew the sheriff was out to get him for the reward money, the desperado warned him never\nto attempt it again.\n\"It is not my intention to be captured!\" he said,\nat the same time acknowledging that he had indeed shot and killed Jack Sloan. Then gathering up the\ndiscarded arms, he brazenly mounted the sheriff's horse and rode away leaving the fortunate, and highly\nembarrassed Al Jones to walk most of the way back to Santa Cruz.\nDuring the summer of 1869, \"Charole\" was leading a gang of horse thieves and cutthroats in the Santa Clara\nValley. One day while driving a herd of stolen horses near the Alviso farm of John O'Hara, he spotted Mrs.\nO'Hara standing in front of the house. On an impulse, he rode up, threw a lasso around her waist, and began\nto drag the hapless woman down the road.\nShe probably would have died except for the fact that her cries for help were heard by her husband who\nhappened to be working in a nearby field. He swiftly jumped on his horse and dashed after them firing as he\nrode. One of the bullets struck Lorenzana in the chest, causing him to drop the rope.\n\"Charole\" beat a hasty retreat down to the Panoche Valley where he quickly recovered from the wound, the\npistol ball lodging under the skin near the breast bone. He moved his operations to Santa Barbara County and\nwent right back to work stealing livestock.\nThese activities quickly gained him the animosity of all the neighboring ranchers, especially that of Juan\nRodrigues of Rancho La Carpenteria. The two men quarreled loudly whenever they met. Lorenzana boasted\nthat he was going to catch Rodrigues alone sometime and kill him.\nDuring the first week of August, 1870, \"Charole\" made one last trip up to the Santa Clara Valley. He returned\ndriving about twenty head of the finest horses he could siphon from herds in the area. However, he didn't\nknow that he was being followed back to Santa Barbara by a detective from San Jose.\nThe lawmen went to the court of Justice Cooley and had a warrant issued for the arrest of Faustino Lorenzana\non a charge of grand larceny. It was then given to Deputy O. N. Ames to attempt to make the arrest.\nEarly in the morning of August 29, 1870, Deputy Ames gathered together a posse of eight men, who armed\nthemselves and set out after their quarry. They had been informed by one of the vaqueros from La\nCarpenteria that the desperado had attended an all night fandango at Montecito about three miles south of\n9\n\n�Santa Barbara. After drinking heavily, he had gone up to a ravine near a ranch known as the \"Grape Vine\" and\npassed out under a tree.\nWhen the posse arrived at the spot he was still asleep, but upon their approach he bolted upright and drew\nthe two pistols that he carried in his belt. A running gun battle ensued as \"Charole\" backed up the ravine for\nabout two hundred yards while exchanging shots with his pursuers. Just as he reached the bushes, he was hit\nsquarely in the head with a bullet and fell over dead.\nLater when the coroner examined the lifeless body, he found that the outlaw had been hit no less then sixteen\ntimes. He was covered with scars from numerous old knife fights and bullet wounds. \"Charole\" was then\nburied in an unmarked grave on the very spot where he had fallen. So it was that Faustino Lorenzana, the\ngreatest of Los Bandidos de Branciforte, died with his boots on, fulfilling his pledge not to be taken alive.\nBut the Lorenzana story does not end here. There is a strange epilogue to this tale which occurred almost\nthirty years after the killing of Jack Sloan at Arana Gulch.\nOn the morning of July 17, 1895, a lady and her daughter, residents of the Live Oak district, were driving their\nbuggy into town. While they were crossing the bridge at the bottom of Arana Gulch they witnessed the\napparition of a man walk across the road and then disappear. Mother and daughter were startled and pale\nwith excitement when they arrived in Santa Cruz and told their story.\nAmong those listening to them describe the man that they had seen and the clothes that he wore was Thomas\nA.Sweeney. Mr. Sweeney had been a member of the Coroner's Jury which had investigated the slaying of Jack\nSloan on February 11, 1865. From their description, he recognized the apparition as the ghost of Jack Sloan.\nThe local newspapers picked up on the story and ran a whole series of front page articles which included\ninterviews with old timers who remembered Sloan and his three killers. It was in one of these articles that \"a\npioneer\" told, for the first time, how the vigilantes had disposed of Pedro Lorenzana.\nOver the intervening years, as the century turned and one generation of Santa Cruzans replaced another, the\nmemories of those exciting events became obscured by the passage of time.\n\nSource\nIt Is Not My Intention to Be Captured. Copyright 1991 Phil Reader. Reproduced with the permission of Phil\nReader. Photographs courtesy of Phil Reader.\n\nIt is the library’s intent to provide accurate information, however, it is not possible for the library to completely\nverify the accuracy of all information. 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