FULL-TEXT LETTER with its own heading, verbatim: '+ 1804. = Mayo 7 = Loreto. / Gob.r á Virrey

FULL-TEXT LETTER with its own heading, verbatim: '+ 1804. = Mayo 7 = Loreto. / Gob.r á Virrey. Sobre cusa criminal &.a' (Savage writes 'cusa'). Text, verbatim in substance: 'Que en 28 de Dbre. ultimo mandó causa criminal contra dos indios y una india de Mision de S.to Tomas por haber asesinado un Misionero; q.e practicadas diligencias resulta q.e dos muchachos Pajes de 10 á 12 años testifican q.e á desora de la noche vieron á tres indios sentados en la cama del P.e, llamados, Lazaro, Juan Miguel y Mariano; q.e permanesen en la negativa; q.e Juan Miguel falleció en Mis.n de S.n Vicente y aun en articulo de muerte negó el hecho; q.e cre conveniente se atormente á Mariano.' English gloss: on 28 December last he forwarded the criminal case against two Indian men and one Indian woman of Mission Santo Tomas for murdering a missionary; the investigation produced two page-boys aged 10 to 12 who testify that late at night they saw three Indians, named Lazaro, Juan Miguel and Mariano, seated on the father bed; the accused persist in denying it; Juan Miguel died at Mission San Vicente and denied the act even at the point of death; the governor thinks it advisable that Mariano be put to the torture. This is the Fr Miguel Lopez murder at Santo Tomas, the case that ends in the Barbara Gandiaga executions; the governor proposing judicial torture in 1804 is the substance of the leaf.

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