The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 5, July 1901 - April, 1902 Page: 241
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The Mexican and Indian RBaid of '78. 241
all, who after some time left without being able to do any damage
to the witness or his party, except wounding a mule. After their
failure to capture the mules of the train they (the raiders) went off
towards the Rio Grande. Witness then moved on towards Corpus
Christi with his wagons, and found two carts loaded with wool and
hides, standing in the road, which had been attacked and the team-
sters captured, (two Mexican boys), who were taken prisoners and
stripped naked and then turned loose by the Indians, who destroyed
the freight by cutting the wool bags and hides, and scattering the
contents. Witness is a native of Mexico, but was formerly a resi-
dent of McMullen County for about seven years. These two boys
stated to witness that the Indians inquired of them where they
could get good fat horses, when they informed their captors that
a train of witness, with good mules, was a few miles behind, on the
road, which he believes induced him to release the boys, and come
to attack his teams.
CA1XTO RODRIGUEZ.
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Corpus Christi, this 31st
day of May, 1878.
JOSEPIH FITZSIMMONS,
U. S. Commissioner.
BY FRANK C. GRAVIS.
United States of America, Eastern District of Texas, State of Texas, County of
Nueces.
Before the undersigned, Commissioner of the Circuit Court of
the United States, for the Eastern District of Texas, resident in
the City of Corpus Christi, in said District, personally appeared
Frank C. Gravis, a resident of the town of San Diego, in Duval
County, who, being duly sworn, deposes and says as follows:
I am a sheep raiser by occupation, and have a rancho twenty-five
miles west of San Diego, where my flocks range, under the control
of seven or eight Mexican shepherds. On the 18th day of April
last, 1878, I was engaged at my rancho in superintending my sheep.
An express was sent me from Jorge Alanes, a neighbor living
about four miles off, that a party of Indians had killed a man by
the name of Basan, at the Solidad Rancho, about twelve miles north
of my place, and were gathering all the horse stock in the vicinity,
requesting to get a party of men and meet him that night, for the
purpose of recovering the horses if possible. I then sent an express
to Mr. Edward Caldwell, at the Borjas Rancho, asking to send
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