The Legend of Chipita’s Ghost

Chances are, nobody will ever really know the truth about the hanging - I recall a scene from an old movie that states: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Perhaps this is the way we should treat the execution of Chipita and the legend of her ghost that is said to linger around Old San Patricio, Texas. According to The Handbook of Texas, Josefa “Chipita” Rodriquez was hanged in…