Pedro Gonzales (? - June 1852), origins unknown, possibly a Sonoran, was killed in July 1852 by Harry Love at what is now the Conejo Grade. He was a known member of the Five Joaquins Gang riding with Joaquin Murrieta's band, as published in newspapers of the time. 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. Pedro Gonzales (Murrieta's band) The Los Angeles Star had noted Pedro's death in an earlier news item noting he had been captured by Harry Love and his partner after tracking him to Mission San Buenaventura. Pedro was shot while fleeing the custody of Harry Love on the Cuesta del Conejo in mid June 1852. Love and his partner had been one of several parties of bounty hunters, hunting the killers of Allen Ruddle for the reward offered by Ruddle's family. The reward was for the apprehension of the killers of their son, who had been killed and robbed on April 27, 1852 by three Mexican men, attacked while driving a wagon on the road to Stockton. Pedro Gonzales was identified as a member of Joaquin Murrieta's company after his death, by a fellow gang member and Murrieta's brother-in-law Reyes Feliz, in his confession published in the December 4, 1852 Los Angeles Star. In the confession in the trial before his hanging, Reyes confessed to robbing with Murrieta and Gonzales, stealing horses at the Rancho Orestimba, and driving them to the Sinks of Tejon. This was just after the time of Allan Ruddle's murder and robbery, when the gang was under the pressure of the parties and individuals seeking the bounty for his killers. They drover their stolen horses taken from the Rancho Orestimba southward to the Sinks of Tejon. The gang had been followed by a posse led by the Californio owner of the stolen horses and the gang had been captured by the local Yokuts tribe at the Sinks of Tejon and their stolen horses returned to their owner, by their chieftain, Jose Zapatero, a story mentioned in the June 12, 1852 Los Angeles Star. All the gang were subsequently let go by the Yokuts, without clothes or other belongings according to the account of John Rollin Ridge in his