The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-12

reply without prejudice 10 the cause Of
law anu order, for the promotion Of
which am eSerting myself, | would
reJoln;
First, "ln the interest OF law and
order" etc, Now, II Mr., Eyerhart
took any real interest In law aud order,
having, what he claims IN certain
facts In his possession, why did no not
have me arrested Instead OF publishing
u card to the publlc2 For, II those facts
are true, Mr. Everhart stands, TO day,
"A per lured villain In not having me
arrested, having violated his oath OF
0lllce. II they are not true, OF course
he IN n liar and slanderer.
IL he was earned with warrant
from Governor Hubbard he stated TO
me IA deliberate JdtSehOOd, Tor he SAID
10 me he had no papers and needed
none, lie did come 10 Denton county
In company with the sheriff Of Cooke
county and others, He says he IN
formed me OF the fact that the rob
btrs had gone TO San Antonio. That
IL false, for | Informed him Of that fact
He says he learned Sam Bass aud
his G0ufederates were at San Antonio
when he raa0hai that place. IL will
be remem bered That Everhart ac ,om
panied me to San Antonio, as ! had all
the necessary Information and ne NAT
none ] secreted myself In II certain
house, and had the drop on Henry
Underwood M he stood IN the street,
for whom | had "A warrant; but ! was
fooled by Everhart, who stepped into
! the room and cried: "Don'l do that
Give me the warrant, aud | will go
aud arrest him.n yielded to his TO-
quest, and gave him the warrant He
went out, aud the last | saw of Ever
hart he was within ten stels Of I'm
del wood, following him up to the
corner OF Main Plaza. ] afterward
learned, ftom what believe reliable
authority, that he STOOD on the corner
and talked to Henry Underwood and
Sam Bass. Why he did not arrest him
has never been satisfactorily explained
to me, for he must have known him,
since | had pointed Underwood out to
him, and he never lost sight OF him.
Everhart, in company with Tony
| Waits, (the man who came from the
Union Pacific railroad to identity all
parties connected with that r0hbery,)
returned to my room, and Waits said
"Tom, do you know that Henry I'M
derwUod was in Denton county at the
time Of the Union Pacific train rob
berym | replied that j did not see
him, but was satisfied that he was in
Denton county at the time OF the rob-
berry, for | had papers for him, and
was looking for him at the time. He
said: ~ will swear that he ia Tom
Nixon, one Of the Union Pacific train
robbers" "Why didn't you arrest
him, then ?" said /, "Wait,n said he.
ave want to get them all together.
They are all here" That evening they
lost every trace OF them, and l was
thus given away, and the first hard
feelings thus originated between us.
The next morning they requested
me to go out and look about to see If |
could see any of the crowd. Everhart
and | went out together, and Frank
Jackson saw me before did him, and
mounted his horse and notified the
rest of the party, who were secreted IN
a wagon yard.
If he had procured the assistance OF
the San Antonio police las | requested
him to do), instead of telegraphing to
Lee Hall, the whole crowd could have
been arrested.
The information which he obtained
from certain prostitute (whom he
frequently visited while in that city, is
also false.
When he states that l got roll OF
green backs, or other money, from sam
Bass. he states willful falsehood.
Walter Johnson never saw me in Sher
man. and | never exhibited to him any
money in Sherman, or on my return
home But in February, at Hearne
station Ton my return from Austln,
where had deposited counterfeiter),
Mr.. Walter Johnson, deputy United
States marshal, asked me ii Purnell
paid me that fifty dollars on the even
ing before. replied, Eyes; am not
hroke - and showed him what money
I had. AS to where / got this money,
I refer all honest men mot Everhart)
to Sheriff w. +. Eagan, Of Denton
county.
| also stated to Johnson, at Hearne,
that Sam Bass had been friend OF
mine.
| did accomplish all l went to San
Antonio to do. / was employed ny
Sheriff Eagan at the time to 90 to san
Antonio and arrest Henry Under
wood. but when | found out that
Waits was going to swear that he wa'
Nixon and train robber, and haC
been given away, my mission was al
an and But EneW that Underwood
vas neither Nixon nor one OF the UNION
Pacific train robbers, tor he slept al
linn Hollis rancho, in Denton county,
On the 10Th or 18th of September, ant
could not have been in Nebraska Oh
the 18th. ~. r,or
hart had been gloriously "giVel
3 awayr at San Antonio, but ana not Say
| now Waits swearing that Under
5 wood was Nixon, which he was mot
.. and Frank JacksOn's notification are
9 what gave him away.
stated that would never assis
, Everhart or q certain one OF flnKer
= TOMS men, ], H. Gaines, in the srres
p If sam Bass, for the reason tnat re
uarded them as Williams, and have goo'
p reasons for so doing.
, never stated to June Peak nor any
o,bar nerson that Sam Bass could no
ba taken out of Denton county. San
Einiev was present when the CONVEX
sation in question occurred anu ie'e
4 to him. Ar. yvelte
|, Johnson will corroborate MS stateihen
i he knows that he is a liar anu vi
y t nY il notin him, and refer no 1es
s nanInot Everhart-to Mr.. johnson
After arresting Henry underwood OF,
n rr m said to him, 81 have arrest
n 90 Won only for the reward, but 70
IS e eli y ont Of this; and | have this
e s " to YOU that if you will get ava!
d s s,i,b - Tom GERM just call at my Ollie
/. where there will be one hundred DO
4 , Mne' which you can get" This Wa
~ iais , W, ITndsrwood to certain citizen