Joaquin Murieta, and all but Reyes had then come down to Los Angeles. Reyes himself had been mauled by a bear and took some time to recover before he followed. In the meantime Pedro Gonzales and an unknown companion had been tracked to the Mission San Buenaventura by Love and his partner. After an exchange of gunshots, they had captured one of the suspects, Pedro Gonzales, while the other, possibly Joaquin Murrieta himself, escaped. Love and his companion began their return to Los Angeles, herding their captive along on foot while they rode. The Los Angeles Star reported what happened next at the Cuesta del Conejo as given in the affidavit: As noted above Pedro Gonzales was later, in December of that year, identified by Reyes Feliz as a member of the company of Joaquin Murietta, and as one of those who robbed persons and stole horses with them. Pedro Gonzales (Valenzuela's band) 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. 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. He was said to have gone to Sonora with the last of the years droves that were sent south in late spring. Latta's sources asserted that Pedro Gonzales was one of the men killed at the Arroyo de Cantua July 25, 1853. Unlike Joaquin Valenzuela and Tres Dedos, later buried under a sections of collapsed stream bank by survivors of the gang, Pedro with the rest of the remaining men of the gang killed, were left scattered on the plain for the buzzards, for fear of the return of Love and his Rangers. Juan Mendez and some others of the Gang from Las Juntas later recovered all the bodies and buried them in graves marked by short posts about 100 yards south of the south bank of the Arroyo de Cantua, below the old crossing for the El Camino Viejo. References Five Joaquins Gang Californios People in 19th-century California 1852 deaths Year of birth unknown