Sanchez, who was perhaps the last person who saw him alive, says that he noticed his horse was very violent, and the Doctor did not seem able to control him.

The accident probably happened half an hour later, as he was picked up about three miles from here, and from appearances must have been dragged, with his foot in the stirrup, fully half a mile before the girth broke and freed the saddle and stirrup together.

The mustang, with nothing on but his broken bridle, was found grazing at the rancho as early as four o'clock, an hour before the body of his master was discovered by the men sent from the rancho to look for him." "Eh, but the man must have been clean daft to have trusted himself to one of those savage beasts of the country," said Mr.Buchanan.

"And he was no so young either--about sixty, I should say.

It didna look even respectable, I remember, when we met him the other day, careering over the country for all the world like one of those crazy Mexicans.