
Cristobal Ricardo (fl. 1908) was a Captain of the Bolivian Army who commanded the soldiers who killed outlaws Butch Cassidy and the "Sundance Kid" in 1908.
Biography[]
Cristobal Ricardo was of mestizo descent, and Ricardo became an officer in the Bolivian Army. He rose to the rank of Captain, and in 1908 he was the man in charge of the company of Bolivian troops that surrounded the wounded outlaws Butch Cassidy and the "Sundance Kid" in San Vicente while they were besieged by the Bolivian police of Gabriel Benavides. The Bolivian troops lined up on the roofs and behind cover in the town square, with their rifles fixed on the entrance to the house where the two outlaws were based. Eventually, the two outlaws charged out with their pistols, and the Bolivians fired two volleys of massed gunfire, killing both of them and ending the "Bandidos Yanquis".