60078-15 - (MEXICAN ARMY SOLDIER IS INDUCTED BY A NOTORIOUS BANDIT!)

(MEXICAN ARMY SOLDIER IS INDUCTED BY A NOTORIOUS BANDIT!)

$200.00
60078-15

Partly printed document, 1p., folio, Monterrey, Sep.1, 1834, a contract binding Jesus Rodriguez Cantu into the First Cavalry Company of Nuevo Leon. The document bears a holographic description and two signatures from GREGORIO PEREZ and includes a Filiacion del Soldado, a brief synopsis of the soldier's parentage; his father, Antonio Rodriguez, was a local city official. Countersigned by AGAPITO TREVINO (1829-1854) as a witness. Trevino, signing as a youth and son of a wealthy landowner, would grow up to become the infamous El Caballo Blanco (The White Horse), a feared robber who galloped through the Mexican hills scouring towns for victims. Trevino was known for never killing his victims, instead making them dance to the sound of his harmonica at gunpoint after he robbed them. Authorities captured Trevino, but he escaped prison in 1853, an act which so infuriated the government they sentenced the bandit to death. Police captured Trevino in 1854 and shot him dead in the Plaza Hidalgo. Trevino died leaving rumors that his horde is buried in Cerro de la Silla. Fine.