When finally killed near Pinole by Morse, his body was discovered to hold "three pistol wounds and 13 pieces of shotgun lead" from the previous shootout.
[1] At about 2:00 am on October 3, 1867, the onetime notorious Chileno outlaw named Narrato Ponce was engaged in a poker game with several others at Graevenor's Saloon in the town of Hayward California, just east of San Francisco.
A dispute arose and Ponce left the room and returned, firing a pistol at his agitators, eventually putting a bullet straight through the lung out of the body and into the arm of his target.
[4][5] Not due to any lack of effort on Morse's behalf, but it wouldn't be until the end of the month before a solid lead came forward as to Narrato Ponce's whereabouts.
The two lawmen made their way to Ponce, ditching a buggy in the Amador Valley near Dublin California for the place where they were now informed the murderer was supposed to be concealed.
Sheriff Morse came by secret information that Ponce would make his way along a certain by-road at night to try and escape to a lower county, and it was there in the shadow of a hay-stack, by a gate where the two lawmen would wait for their man.
Ponce opened the gate and tied it coming within ten feet of Morse, who drew his shotgun and ordered the Chileno to stop.
The officer drew his six-shooter and started firing at Ponce; at this time Morse discharged a load of buckshot, striking the murderer in the back.
The last shot fired by Conway caused Narrato Ponce to fall from his horse, but although he was injured he was still able to move on foot along a fence.
As it had gone before, it just so happened that new information from an old Native American revealed that the elusive Narrato Ponce was hiding behind them back from where they came in the bay of Pinole.