Child homicide. Body of neophyte shepherd boy Juan found near Mission SF, rawhide cord at neck. Four neophyte boys — Marcelo (11), Ventura & Ildefonso (9), Vicente Francisco (10) — strangled him with cord, sand in mouth, kicking, over a quarrel about fetching tuna. Full confession; baptism records signed by Fray José Altimira
| Date | 1822-11-12 (events Jan 1822) (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Cmdt. Luis Antonio Argüello |
| To | fiscal Tte. Ignacio Martínez, escribano José Fernández |
| Place | SF (Mission) |
| Series | Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | LIII–LXVIII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | 721–36 |
| Scan leaf | n73–n75 |
| Document type | transcription |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Cmdt. Luis Antonio Argüello to fiscal Tte. Ignacio Martínez, escribano José Fernández, SF (Mission), 1822-11-12 (events Jan 1822), Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Military), LIII–LXVIII, 721–36, Archives of California, C-A 18, 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 LIII–LXVIII]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/ca18/ca18-d19.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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