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Born in Texas probably in 1830, Randolph Runnels was a nephew of Hiram Georges Runnels. He became a Texas Ranger and took part to the Indian wars. He came in Panama in his early 20s, recruited by the Railroad company who was looking for a man capable of pacifying the isthmus for the construction of the Panama Railway, the first intercontinental railway, which was inaugurated in 1855. ==The Isthmian Guard== He settled in Panama and opened a company of mule rentals and transportation services. This was a cover for his true occupation, the extermination of the bandits --- the so-called “Derienni” --- who plagued the isthmian transit zone during railroad construction days. After registering the movements and the name of the bandits in a "black book", Runnels, with the help of the railroad company and the tacit approval of Colombian and US authorities, created a company of agents called "The Isthmian guard", with whom he organized a couple of mass hangings, one of which took the lives of 37 presumed criminals. Their bodies were found one morning strung up near the Panama City seawall. In another purge, 41 people died. Runnels was also believed to be in charge of quelling labor unrest, and he supposedly whipped the mayor of the village of Las Cruces in the town square, to end a labor stoppage. Nicknamed "El Verdugo" (the executioner), Runnels and his Isthmian Guard are said to have quelled the crime by the time the Panama Railroad was finished. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Randolph Runnels」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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