Tobin was given fifteen men to assist him but went out alone instead. When the authorities failed to capture these men – Wanted: Dead or Alive – they called in renowned adventurer, tracker, trapper, mountain man, guide, and US Army scout, Tom Tobin. In 1863 three Mexican National cousins, the Espinosas, went on a killing spree, murdering more than thirty English-Americans in the San Luis Valley, Colorado in retaliation for relatives killed in the Mexican-American War. There is a tree near the spot which local legend says has grown but never blossomed since. John’s body was eventually retrieved and buried in un-consecrated ground, nearby. His body was thrown into a lake by local Catholics. Mullowney was fatally stabbed in the act of killing the last remaining Catholic priest in his parish. His favourite method of ensnaring priests was to feign a deathbed confession then pull out a concealed weapon and do for the Holy Man.
A “talented rogue”, John excelled at clergy hunting, being paid as much as £100 for the capture of an Archbishop or Bishop. He was offered a choice: hang or become a Priest Hunter.
John Mullowney was arrested as a horse thief in Castlebar, Ireland in the early 1700s. Any cleric who refused was sentenced to death.
The 1709 Penal Act demanded that all Catholic priests take the Oath of Abjuration and recognise the Protestant Queen as Supreme Head of the Church of England and Ireland. While the Big Rig Bounty Hunters may have it rough sometimes the history of Bounty Hunting has more than its fair share of talented, tough, and in some cases morally questionable agents.
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