"Outlaw's Bones, Perhaps"
Skeleton Unearthed Near Barn Built at Topango in Stirring Times.
Santa Monica Notes.
In making excavations for the repair of the old adobe barn on the Harter place, at the mouth of Garapito Creek, in Topango Cañon, Postmaster Charles Greenleaf of Topango unearthed the skeleton of a man. The bones are believed to be those of an Indian, as numerous stone implements were also found. The barn was built by [Brigadore] Valdez in 1871, and some think that the skeleton, if it could speak, Would tell of the doings of [Tiburcio] Vasquez and his outlaw band.
