[15] In Lincoln they ransacked houses, but were repulsed by gunfire when they attempted to take over Issac Ellis' store,[16] and in the south they continued their depravities at José Chavez y Sanchez ranch shooting and killing two of his sons, Clato and Desiderio.
[18] In October 1878 the gang encamped on the Pecos River, they were playing poker game, an argument broke up and John shot and killed the chief on the spot.
[19] A large posse led by Lincoln resident Juan Patron chased the gang and killed several of them in a gun battle in the limit of Fort Sumner.
He left New Mexico and signed up 175 recruits renagades for a large-scale rustling operation in western Texas, but they schemed and began to fall apart and broke the association.
[23] In August Rangers took him to Comanche County to await court, he was later moved to Albany, but guards, by prearrangment, removed his manacles, gave him a horse and reached Mexico.