Causa criminal — the neophyte Juan Bautista, who took church asylum at San Gabriel, accused of killing a Christian Indian (Lerme[?]) with arrows; both were mission runaways, the killing over a debt of 'tres reales de abalorios' (3 reales of beads). Defense (the 'mercader viandante' Juan Salvador Astorga): 'un cristiano nuevo, rudo, y loco.' Fiscal asks to contest the church asylum (per Benedict XIV's exclusion of such crimes). Orig. pp.810–39
| Date | 1818-09-30 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | fiscal Santiago Argüello |
| Place | San Diego / San Gabriel |
| Series | Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | XL–LII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | pp.810–39 |
| Savage copy page | 253–255 |
| Scan leaf | n252–n254 |
| Document type | verbatim transcription |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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fiscal Santiago Argüello, San Diego / San Gabriel, 1818-09-30, Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military), XL–LII, pp.810–39, Archives of California, C-A 17, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within XL–LII]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca17/ca17-d317.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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