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012 - Sam Bass and His Train Robber Gang Part 2 · Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine of Six Years with the Texas Rangers eighteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy five to eighteen eighty one. This is a Liberyvox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Stephen R. Gagan. Six Years with the Texas Rangers
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  Speaker 1: eighteen seventy five to eighteen eighty one by James B. Gillette,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine. Sam Bass and his Train Robber Gang, Part two. Bass,
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  Speaker 1: SEBBI Barnes, Frank Jackson, and Jim Murphy left Denton County
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  Speaker 1: early in July eighteen seventy eight with his usual boldness. Bass,
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  Speaker 1: after he had passed Dallas County, made no attempt at concealment,
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  Speaker 1: but traveled a public Hiwroy in broad daylight. Bass and
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  Speaker 1: Barnes were still suspicious of Murphy and never let him
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  Speaker 1: out of this sight, though they refused to talk to
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  Speaker 1: or associate with him in any way. When Bass reached Waco,
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  Speaker 1: the party camp the outskirts of town and remained there
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  Speaker 1: two or three days. Visited the town each day, looked
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  Speaker 1: over the situation, and in one bank so much golden currency.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson was enthusiastic and wanted to rob it at once. Bass,
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  Speaker 1: being more careful and experienced, thought a too hazard an
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  Speaker 1: undertaking for the run through the crowded streets, that the
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  Speaker 1: outskirts of the city was too far, and so he
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  Speaker 1: vetoed the attempt. While in Waco, the gang stepped into
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  Speaker 1: a saloon to get a drink. Vast laid a twenty
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  Speaker 1: dollar gold piece on the bar and remarked, there goes
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty of the Union Pacific money. Damn little
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  Speaker 1: good it has done me. On leaving Waco, the robbers
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  Speaker 1: stole a fine mare from a farmer named Billy Mounds
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  Speaker 1: and traveled the main road to Belton. They were now
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  Speaker 1: out of money and planned to rob a bank at
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  Speaker 1: round Rock. Williamson County General Jones was now getting anxious
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  Speaker 1: over the gang. Not a word had been heard from
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  Speaker 1: Jim Murphy since he had rejoined the band, for he
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  Speaker 1: had been so closely watched that he had no opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to communicate with the authority, and it seemed as if
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  Speaker 1: he would be forced to participate in the next robbery
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  Speaker 1: in spite of himself. At Belton, Sam sold an extra
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  Speaker 1: pony his party had after stealing the mere at Waco,
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  Speaker 1: the purchaser demanded a bill of sale, as the vendors
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  Speaker 1: were stranger in the country. While Bass and Barnes were
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  Speaker 1: in the store riding out the required document, Murphy seized
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to dash off a short note to General Jones, saying,
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  Speaker 1: we are on our way to round Rock to rob
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  Speaker 1: the bank. For God's sakes, be there to prevent it
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  Speaker 1: at the post office to join the store. The trader
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  Speaker 1: succeeded in mailing his letter or betrayal just one minute
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  Speaker 1: before Bass came out on the street again. The gang
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  Speaker 1: continued their way to the Round Rock and camped near
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  Speaker 1: the Old Town, which is situated about one mile north
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  Speaker 1: of New round Rock. The bandits concluded to rest feed
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  Speaker 1: their horses for three or four days before attempting their robbery.
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  Speaker 1: This delay was providential for it gave General Jones time
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  Speaker 1: to assemble his rangers to repel the attack. After Major
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  Speaker 1: Jones was made Adjutant General of Texas, he caused a
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  Speaker 1: small attack action of four or five rangers to camp
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  Speaker 1: on the Capitol grounds at Austin. He drew his units
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  Speaker 1: from different companies along the line. Each unit would be
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  Speaker 1: detailed to camp in Austin, and about every six weeks
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  Speaker 1: or two months, the detail would be relieved by a
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  Speaker 1: squad from another company. It will readily be seen that
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  Speaker 1: this was a wise policy, as the detail was always
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  Speaker 1: on hand and could be sent in any direction by
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  Speaker 1: rail or on horseback at short notice. Besides, General Jones
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  Speaker 1: was devoted to his rangers and liked to have them
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  Speaker 1: around where he can see them daily. At the time
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  Speaker 1: of which I write, four men from Company E, Corporal
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  Speaker 1: Vernon Wilson and Privates Dick Ware, Chris Connor, and George Harold,
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  Speaker 1: were camped at Austin. The corporal helped General Jackson as
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  Speaker 1: a clerk in his office, but was in charge of
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  Speaker 1: the squad on the capitol grounds, slept in camp and
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  Speaker 1: had his meals with them. When General Jones received Murphy's letter,
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  Speaker 1: he was astonished at Bass's audacity in approaching within fifteen
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  Speaker 1: or twenty miles of the state Capitol, the very headquarters
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  Speaker 1: of the Frontier Battalion, to rob a bank. The letter
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  Speaker 1: was written at Belton, Texas, and received at the Adjutant
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  Speaker 1: General's office. On the last mail in the afternoon, the
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  Speaker 1: company of Ranges nearest round Rock was Lieutenant Renold's company
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  Speaker 1: east stationed at sent Saba, one hundred and fifteen miles distant.
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  Speaker 1: There was no telegraph to San Saba. Then General Jones
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  Speaker 1: reflected a few moments after receipt of the letter, and
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  Speaker 1: then arranged his plan accordingly. He turned to Corporal Wilson
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  Speaker 1: and told him that Sambass and his gang were or
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  Speaker 1: soon would be at round Rock, Texas to rob the
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  Speaker 1: bank there. I want you to leave at once to
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  Speaker 1: carry an order to Lieutenant Reynolds. It is sixty five
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  Speaker 1: miles to Lampasas, and you can make that place early
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  Speaker 1: enough in the morning to catch the lamp Passas and
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  Speaker 1: send Saba stage. You must make that stage at all hazards,
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  Speaker 1: save neither yourself nor your horse. But get these orders
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  Speaker 1: to Lieutenant Reynolds as quickly as possible, he ordered. Corporal
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  Speaker 1: Wilson hurried to the livery stable, saddled his horse, and
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  Speaker 1: got away from Austin on his wild ride just at nightfall.
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  Speaker 1: His horse was fresh and fat and in no condition
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  Speaker 1: to make such a run. However, Wilson reached lamp Passas
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  Speaker 1: at daylight the next morning and made the outgoing stage
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  Speaker 1: to San Saba, but killed his gallant little gray horse.
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  Speaker 1: In doing from Lampassas to San Saba was fifty miles
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  Speaker 1: and it took the stage all day to make the trip.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he landed in town, Corporal Wilson hired
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  Speaker 1: a horse and galloped three miles down to Lieutenant Reynold's
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  Speaker 1: camp and delivered his orders. After dispatching Corporal Wilson to
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Reynolds, Gerald Jones hurried over to the ranger camp
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  Speaker 1: on Capitol Grounds and ordered the three rangers Whare, Corner
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  Speaker 1: and Harold to proceed to round Rock with their horses
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  Speaker 1: in Hotsmith's livery stable, and keep themselves concealed until he
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  Speaker 1: could reach them himself by train next morning. The following morning,
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  Speaker 1: General Jones went to round Rock. He carried with him
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  Speaker 1: from Austin Morris Moore, an ex ranger, but then Deputy
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff of Travis County. On reaching his destination, the General
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  Speaker 1: called on Deputy Sheriff Grimes of Williamson's County, who was
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  Speaker 1: stationed at round Rock, and told him Bass was expected
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  Speaker 1: in town to rob the bank, and that a scouter
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  Speaker 1: rangers would be in town as soon as possible. Jones
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  Speaker 1: advised Deputy grime to keep a sharp lookout for strangers,
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  Speaker 1: but on no account to attempt and arrest until the
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  Speaker 1: rangers could arrive. I will remember that hot July evening
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  Speaker 1: when Corporal Wilson arrived in our camp with his orders.
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  Speaker 1: The company had just had supper, the horses fed and
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  Speaker 1: tied up for the night. We knew the sudden appearance
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  Speaker 1: of the corporal meant something of unusual importance. Soon Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Neville came hurrying to us with orders to detail a
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  Speaker 1: party for an immediate scout. Lieutenant Reynolds's orders had been brief,
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  Speaker 1: but to the point basses at Round Rock. We must
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  Speaker 1: be there as early as possible tomorrow. Make a detail
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  Speaker 1: of eight men and select those that have the horses
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  Speaker 1: best able to make a fast run, and you, with
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  Speaker 1: them report to me here at my tent, ready to
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  Speaker 1: ride in thirty minutes. First Sergeant C. L. Neville, Second
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Henry McGee, second Corporal JB. Gillette, Privates Abe Anglin,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Lingen, Bill Derrick, John R. And W. L. Banister
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  Speaker 1: were selected for the detail. Lieutenant Reynolds ordered two of
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  Speaker 1: our best little pack mules hitched to a light spring pack,
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  Speaker 1: for he had been sick and was not in condition
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  Speaker 1: to make the journey horseback. In thirty minutes from the
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  Speaker 1: time Corporal Wilson reached camp, we were mounted, armed and
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. Lieutenant Arnolds took his seat in the hack,
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  Speaker 1: threw some blankets in, and Corporal Wilson, who had not
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  Speaker 1: had a minute sleep for over thirty six hours, lay
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  Speaker 1: down to get a little rest. As we moved along, say, boys,
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  Speaker 1: did you ever try to follow on horseback two fast
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  Speaker 1: traveling little mules hitched to an open up spring hack
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred miles? Well, it is some stunt. We
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  Speaker 1: left our camp on the San Saba River just as
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  Speaker 1: sunset and traveled in a fast trot, sometimes in a
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  Speaker 1: lope the entire night. Our old friend and comrade Jack Martin,
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  Speaker 1: then in the mercantile business in the little town of Centerfret,
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  Speaker 1: heard us pass by in the night, and next morning
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  Speaker 1: said to some of his customers that hell was to
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  Speaker 1: pay somewhere, as the rangers had passed his store during
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  Speaker 1: the night on a dead run. The first rays of
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  Speaker 1: the rising sun shone on us at the crossing of
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  Speaker 1: North Gabriel, fifteen miles south of pass Us. We had
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  Speaker 1: ridden sixty five miles that short summer night. We had
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  Speaker 1: forty five miles yet to go before reaching Round Rock.
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  Speaker 1: We halted on the Gabrael for breakfast of bread, broiled bacon,
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  Speaker 1: and black coffee. The horses had a bundle of boats each.
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Reynolds held his watch on us, and it took
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  Speaker 1: us just thirty minutes to breakfast and be off. We
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  Speaker 1: were now facing a hot July sun, and our horses
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  Speaker 1: were beginning to show the effects of the hard ride
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  Speaker 1: of the night before and slowed down perceptibly. We never
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  Speaker 1: halted again until we reached the vicinity of Old Round
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  Speaker 1: Rock between one and two in the afternoon of Friday,
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  Speaker 1: July nineteenth, eighteen seventy eight. The Lieutenant camped us on
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  Speaker 1: the banks of the Brushy Creek and drove into New
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  Speaker 1: Round Rock to report his arrival to General Jones. Bass
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  Speaker 1: had decided to rob the bank at Round Rock on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: the twentieth. After his gang had eaten dinner and camp
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  Speaker 1: Friday evening, they saddled their ponies and started over to
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  Speaker 1: town to take a last look at the bank and
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  Speaker 1: select a route to follow in leaving the place after
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  Speaker 1: the robbery. As they left Camp Jim Murphy, knowing that
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  Speaker 1: the bandits might be set upon at any time, suggested
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  Speaker 1: that he stop at May's store and Old Round Rock
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  Speaker 1: and get a bushel of corn, as they were out
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  Speaker 1: of feed for their horses. Bass, Barnes, and Jackson rode
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  Speaker 1: on into the town, hitched their horses in an alley
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  Speaker 1: just back of the bank, passed that building and made
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  Speaker 1: a mental note of the situation. Then they went up
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  Speaker 1: the main street of the town and entered Corporal's store
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  Speaker 1: to buy some tobacco. As the three bandits passed into
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  Speaker 1: the store, Deputy Sheriff Moore, who was standing on the
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  Speaker 1: sidewalk with Deputy Sheriff Grimes, said he thought one of
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  Speaker 1: the newcomers had a pistol. I will go in and see,
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  Speaker 1: replied Grimes. I believe you have a pistol, remarked Grimes,
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  Speaker 1: approaching Bass and trying to search him. Yes, of course
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  Speaker 1: I have a pistol, said Bass. At the words, the
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  Speaker 1: robbers pulled their guns and killed Grimes. As he backed
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  Speaker 1: away to the door. He felt dead on the sidewalk.
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  Speaker 1: Then they turned on Moore and shot him through the
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  Speaker 1: lungs as he attempted to draw his weapon. At the
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  Speaker 1: crack of the first pistol shot dick Ware, who was
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  Speaker 1: seated in a barbershop on in a few ston away
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  Speaker 1: waiting his turn for a shave, rushed into the street
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  Speaker 1: and encountered the three bandits just as they were leaving
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  Speaker 1: the store. Seeing where rapidly or advancing on them, Bass
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  Speaker 1: and his men fired on the ranger at close range,
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  Speaker 1: one of their bullets striking a hitching post within six
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  Speaker 1: inches of Where's head and knocking splinters into his face.
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  Speaker 1: This assault never halted where for a minute. He was
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  Speaker 1: as brave as courage itself, and never hesitated to take
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  Speaker 1: the most desperate chances when the occasion demanded it. For
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes dick fought the robber single handed. General Jones,
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  Speaker 1: coming up town from the telegraph office, ran into the fight.
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  Speaker 1: He was armed with only a small Colt double action pistol,
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  Speaker 1: but threw himself into the fray corner, and Harald now
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  Speaker 1: had come up and joined in the fusillade. The General,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the robbers on foot and almost within his graft,
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  Speaker 1: drew in close and urged his men to strain every
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  Speaker 1: nerve to capture or exterminate the desperadoes. By this time,
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  Speaker 1: every man in the town that could secure a gun
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  Speaker 1: joined in the fight. The bandits had now reached their horses, and,
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  Speaker 1: realizing the situation was critical, fought with the energy of despair.
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  Speaker 1: If ever a train robber could be called a hero,
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  Speaker 1: this boy, Frank Jackson, proved himself one. Barnes was shot
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  Speaker 1: down and killed at his feet. Bass was mortally wounded
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  Speaker 1: and unable to defend himself or even mount his horse,
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  Speaker 1: while the bullets continued to pour in from every quarter.
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  Speaker 1: With heroic courage, Jackson held the rangers back with his
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  Speaker 1: pistol in his right hand, while the unhitched Vass's horse
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  Speaker 1: with his left and assisted him into the saddle. Then
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  Speaker 1: mounting his own horse, Jackson and his chief galloped out
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  Speaker 1: of the jaws, a hell itself. In their flight, they
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  Speaker 1: passed through Old round Rock, and Jim Murphy, standing on
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  Speaker 1: the door of May's store, saw Jackson and Bass go
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  Speaker 1: by on a dead run. The betrayer noticed that Jackson
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  Speaker 1: was holding Bass pale and bleeding in the saddle. Lieutenant Reynolds,
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  Speaker 1: entering round Rock, came within five minutes of beating Bass
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  Speaker 1: and Jackson in the road. Before he reached town, he
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  Speaker 1: met posses of citizens and rangers in pursuit of the robbers.
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  Speaker 1: When the fugitives reached the cemetery, Jackson halted long enough
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  Speaker 1: to secure a Winchester they had hidden in the grass there,
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  Speaker 1: then left the road and were lost for a time.
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  Speaker 1: The fight was now over and the plays spoiled by
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  Speaker 1: two over zealous deputies and bringing on an immature fight
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  Speaker 1: after they had been warned to be careful. Naturally, War
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  Speaker 1: and Grime should have known that the three stagers were
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  Speaker 1: the sam Basque gang. Lieutenant Reynolds started Sergeant Neville and
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  Speaker 1: his rangers early next morning in search of the flying bandits.
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  Speaker 1: After traveling in the direction the robbers were last seen,
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  Speaker 1: we came upon a man lying under a large oak tree.
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  Speaker 1: Since we were armed. As we advanced upon him, he
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  Speaker 1: called out to us not to shoot, saying he was
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  Speaker 1: Sam Bass, the men we were hunting. After entering the
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  Speaker 1: woods the evening before, Bass became so sick and faint
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  Speaker 1: from the loss of blood that he could go no further.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson dismounted and wanted to stay with his chief, declaring
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  Speaker 1: he was a match for all their pursuers. No, Frank
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  Speaker 1: replied Bass, I'm done for the wounded leader told his
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  Speaker 1: companion to tie his horse near at hand so he
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  Speaker 1: could get away if he fell better. During the night,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson was finally prevailed upon to leave Bass to make
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  Speaker 1: his own escape. When daylight came Saturday morning, Bass got
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  Speaker 1: up and walked to a nearby house. As he approached
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  Speaker 1: the place of a lady seeing him coming holding his
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  Speaker 1: pants up all covered with blood, he left her house
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  Speaker 1: and started to run off. As she was alone with
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  Speaker 1: a small servant girl. Bass saw she was frightened called
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  Speaker 1: to her to stop, saying he was perishing from a
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  Speaker 1: drink of water, and we turned to a tree not
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  Speaker 1: far away and lied down, as she would only send
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  Speaker 1: him a drink. The lady sent him a quart cup
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  Speaker 1: of water, but the poor fellow was too far gone
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  Speaker 1: to drink it. We found him under this tree one
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  Speaker 1: hour later. He had a wound through the center of
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  Speaker 1: his left hand, the bullet having pierced the middle finger.
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  Speaker 1: Bassis's death wound was given him by Dick Ware, who
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  Speaker 1: used a forty five caliber Colt's long barreled six shooter.
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  Speaker 1: The ball from where his pistol struck Bass's belt and
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  Speaker 1: cut two cartridges and peaches and entered his back just
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  Speaker 1: above the right hip bone. The bullet badly mushroomed and
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  Speaker 1: made a fearful mound that tore at the victim's right
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  Speaker 1: kidney all the pieces from the moment he was shot
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  Speaker 1: until his death three days later, Bass suffered untold agonies
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  Speaker 1: as he lay on the ground Friday night where Jackson
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  Speaker 1: had left him. The wounded man tore his undershirt into
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  Speaker 1: more than a one hundred pieces and wiped the blood
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  Speaker 1: from his body. Bass was taken around Rock and given
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  Speaker 1: the best of medical attention, but died the following day, Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: July twenty first, eighteen seventy eight, while he was yet
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  Speaker 1: able to talk. General Jones appeal to Bass to reveal
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  Speaker 1: to the state authorities the names of the Confederates that
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  Speaker 1: he had, that they might be apprehended. Sam, you have
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  Speaker 1: done much evil in this world and have only a
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  Speaker 1: few hours to live. Now, while you have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to do the States some good, please tell me who
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  Speaker 1: your associates were in these violations of the laws of
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  Speaker 1: your country. Sam replied that he could not betray his friends,
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  Speaker 1: and then he might as well die with what he
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  Speaker 1: knew in him. Sam Bass was buried in the cemetery
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  Speaker 1: at Old Round, A small monument was erected over his
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  Speaker 1: grave by his sister. Its simple inscription reads, Samuel Bass
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  Speaker 1: born July twenty first, eighteen fifty one died July twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen seventy eight. A brave man reposes in death here?
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  Speaker 1: Why was he not true? Frank Jackson made his way
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  Speaker 1: back into Denton County and hung around some time, hoping
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  Speaker 1: to get an opportunity to murder the betrayer of his chief,
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  Speaker 1: an ingrate who cause he himself had so amply championed.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson declared if he could meet Jim Murphy, he would
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  Speaker 1: kill him, cut off his head, and carried away in
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  Speaker 1: a gun sack. Murphy returned to Denton, but learned that
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  Speaker 1: Jackson was hiding in the Elm Bottoms, awaiting a chance
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  Speaker 1: to slay him. He thereupon asked permission of the sheriff
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  Speaker 1: to remain in jail for protection. While skulking about the prison,
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  Speaker 1: one of his eyes became infected. A physician gave him
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  Speaker 1: some medicine to drop into the diseased eye, at the
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  Speaker 1: same time cautioning him to be careful, as the fluid
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  Speaker 1: was a deadly poison. Murphy drank the entire contents of
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  Speaker 1: the bottle and was dead in a few hours. Remorse,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt, caused him to end his life. Of the
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  Speaker 1: four men that fought the Round Rock battle with Sam
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  Speaker 1: Boss and his gang, all are dead. General J. B.
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  Speaker 1: Jones and Rangers R. C. Ware, Chris Connor, and George Harrell.
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  Speaker 1: Of the ten men that made the long ride from
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  Speaker 1: San Saba to Round Rock, only two or now alive,
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant N. O' reynolds and myself end Chapter nine.