Another Pedro Gonzales, also a member of the Gang, a Californio that rode with Joaquin Valenzuela, and was killed on July 25, 1853 at the battle of the Arroyo Cantua, was uncovered decades later by the research of Frank F. Latta.
The Los Angeles Star reported what happened next at the Cuesta del Conejo as given in the affidavit: The prisoner, being on foot, complained of fatigue and made several ineffectual attempts to escape.
Accordingly, Mr. Lull [Love] dismounted and proceeded with the man til they came to a small clump of bushes, when the prisoner darted forward into them and would have made his escape - Mr. L's botas and spurs preventing him from giving chase - but the latter, in endeavoring to knock him down with his pistol, accidently [sic] discharged it and shot him through the head, killing him instantly.
[3] According to the sources of Frank F. Latta, former Five Joaquins Gang members or their descendants, Pedro Gonzales was a Californio whose family lived on the Rancho San Ysidro, at what is now Old Gilroy.
[6]: 106, 109 According to Latta's sources, he was an excellent vaquero and a lieutenant in the band of Joaquin Valenzuela, involved most of the time in the illegal horse trade to Sonora and said to have been the custodian of the Gang's Las Tres Piedras branding iron.