User:Asiaticus/sandbox/Manuel Duarte (Tres Dedos)

Manuel Duarte, known in the Five Joaquins Gang as Tres Dedos (Three Fingers), called "Three Fingered Jack", by the California Rangers that killed him and cut off his head and hand.

Manuel Duarte was a cousin of Joaquin Murrieta, born in Villa de Feliz, east of the Arroyo de los Alamos from El Salado, just up river from Pueblo de Murrieta.

Manuel Duarte came to California with Joaquin and his brothers and cousins in 1849. He joined Joaquin in the Five Joaquins Gang and became the head of his own band but later quarreled and separated from Joaquin Murrieta, although he continued working with the bands of Joaquin Juan Murrieta and Joaquin Valenzuela and Teodoro Valenzuela in the horse trade. When he was killed at the Arroyo de Cantua, he was mistaken by the Rangers for another Mexican man, Emanuel Garcia.

Contemporary news articles or reports giving the name of the Three Fingered Jack.

 * Emanuel Garcia
 * Love, ?
 * San Joaquin Republican ?
 * Daily Alta California ?


 * Bernardino Garcia, aka, Four Fingered Jack
 * Californian,  1846
 * Daily Alta California, 8/30, 8/31/53
 * Bancroft,
 * Seacreast, {rp|81,92,94,144-145,149,150,153,159,160,166}}


 * Manuel Garcia
 * Love, ?
 * Another of the dead Mexicans was identified as a sadistic killer known as "Three-Fingered-Jack" (actually Manuel Garcia), a member of Murrieta's gang. (? source?)
 * Another of the dead Mexicans was identified as a sadistic killer known as "Three-Fingered-Jack" (actually Manuel Garcia), a member of Murrieta's gang. (? source?)