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Unhinged. Yet Corona stands accused of wantonly slaughtering at least two dozen men, some of them drifters from Marysville's Skid Row. Indeed, his history has its seamy side. He and his elder brother Natividad, a known homosexual, came to the U.S. illegally in the late 1940s. They both won U.S. resident-alien permits, however, and began to prosper. Juan became a contractor who assembled work gangs before dawn and delivered them to the local orchards; Natividad bought the seedy but popular Guadalajara Cafe in Marysville. Juan was unhinged by the Feather River flood of December 1955, which killed...
Although Corona had no criminal record in Sutter County, in 1956 he spent three months in De Witt State Hospital, a nearby mental institution, after being committed by his brother Natividad; two doctors tentatively diagnosed his illness as schizophrenia. He was released as "cured." A year ago, he and Natividad were defendants in a civil suit filed in Yuba County by one José Raya; Raya won $250,000 in damages against Natividad for an attack, apparently with a machete. No judgment was entered against Juan. Police believe Natividad fled to Mexico two months ago. The Rev. Joseph Bishop...
...Antonio Cabinetmaker Alvaro Alcorta was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. At the trial, Alcorta vainly claimed that he had come upon his wife and one Natividad Castilleja kissing in a car; Alcorta admitted that he then stabbed his wife to death in a fit of passion, a crime punishable in Texas by no more than five years in prison. For the prosecution, Castilleja blandly testified that he had only a platonic relationship with Mrs. Alcorta. In 1957, after Alcorta had faced execution eleven times, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the ground that Castilleja...
...story plays only a minor and ironic part, centres around the younger (mythical) sister of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Forester's big guns are trained on Hornblower's spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...
...Simplicio & Lucio Godino made world news by applying for licenses to marry Natividad and Victorina Motos in Manila. The marriage license clerk objected for fear of compounding collateral bigamy but the sisters and brothers eventually were married. They organized a vaudeville act in which they danced, saxophoned and bantered through South and North America...