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perate as himself, retreated to the mountains, 

 where he was eventually betrayed and captured 

 by one of his oldest companions. 



He was tried by court-martial in Tepic, and 

 sentenced to be shot, but refusing to have his 

 eyes bandaged, he knelt down with his face to 

 the firing party and died with great courage. 



Thus perished the robber-chief of Mexico, 

 the " Tiger of Tepic," as he was appropriately 

 called, one of the most celebrated bandits of 

 his day. For fourteen years Lozada had 

 defied the authorities, and eluded such bodies 

 of troops as were sent to capture him, only 

 leaving his mountain retreat to kill and torture 

 with the most horrible cruelty. There was no 

 crime which he had not committed scores of 

 times, and his name will ever be associated with 

 the most diabolical outrages and unrelenting 

 cruelty. 



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