Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-12-08
HnRRIBIE pENELoPEMENrS.

te Neohlac'> Savings bank. Louisville. Nv.
Nv name IS samuel Walker. wa, born M
The en-, ct New York IN the year 1872; my pa.
rents were rich and well TO do m The world
Was educated for "a lawyer, dad tot choose 10 iin-
lsh my education, so | ran away from home, in
the year 1924, and came to the western country,
whore my principal theatre OF action WIS lad.
Nothing Of importance occurred u me ull
teacasd Cmcmna,ti. where became acquainted
with many uycr ehanclers-boys hike myself
Who persuaded me 90 90 on the riser with them.
dlt so, and immediately went as cabin boy, on
The old Steamboat Caledonia. commanded by
John Russell. In tins manner, though not the
. mos. respectable occupation in the world, made
my living Tot some SIX ur eight months, getting
solafy ii siN seven and eight dollars per month.
Beng WHAT'S called pretty smart boy, thought
that was too little for me 10 have, and SO came
70 the conclusion 10 be better paid. by helping
myself from the passengers pockets, when they
were asleep The first thing did of tins kind
was rohbng a gentleman of bis pocket book ON
board the old fChcjano, whilst She was lying at
ct the New Odcans whorf to which boat then
belonged. This circumstance | suppose the
public has never before known.
The mex, thing had hand in, was in rohbne
a flat boatmau OF about seven or eight hundred
dollars and great quantity Of iewclry. This
was done on the leyee IN New Orleans shortly
after! lell the FeIicjona. \ short time after the
robbery went to Natcbo2, where | robbed soy.
eral persons. | then clt there and went 10
MempaIs, where | robbed a passenger on the
old Uncle Sam. then left Memphis and went
to Louisville where lived for near three wears,
without dong any thing but rob lte children ct
their money when they had been sent on euands.
Durugmy stay IN this place l!beeameacquanjcd
with Geo. Loyclt, Jones, Hoover, and Thomp.
| son, who have all SINCE been hung, aud commit.
! ted with them, at different times, The following
deprclauons viz In the first place we an ship.
ped on houd flat boat bound for New Orleans,
for which we were 10 get twenty-five dollars a
piece. An things went tocablv well on hoaid
Of her, TIL we got between Paducah and The
mouth Of the Ohio, between which places we
killed The owner Of the boat and his brother. We
threw them overheard, and un the boat to Mem.
plhs where NC sold our cargo and boat, for which
we got Sl,373, which we divided among four of
Us, VIZ Lovett, Jones' and Thompson and my.
solf.-so each having Sl,c03 30 cents piece,
we concluded to 90 10 New 0reans--so we got
on board the old Cincinnati and went TO New
Orleans. At this place we staid nearly all win.
ter, aud all we done was 20 kill one man, back'of
ond ,lso hn,iod h;a, ,,ara NIX; ',," $50
le20 hcinr 70 roa,, r. o,' a,J h'''., Wv ,'"'
mled so many deprcdations, was highly honor
cd 10y the honorable board Of common scouu.
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nnd 500 and rode bach IN ,I,r,a,,, ,,l,oto
sold NV horse for SIS then oo, on ,bo .tc,.
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