Poor Mary Reymunda. She hardly had time to celebrate the lifting of the shroud of murder from her husband Urbano Garcia, when a few months later she was hit with the news that her father was shot in the head and left for dead, deep in a New Almaden mine shaft.
Mary Rey's papa, Gomecindo Luera, left her three year old life one evening in 1865 and never returned. Did she remember him? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Still, discovering his murder twenty years later could not have been good news. Again poor Mary Rey finds herself in the midst of another murder scandal.
The San Jose Evening News reports the story June 21, 1886:
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