San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-01-26


the young man described, and in bring
ing him in l said: "Wallace, you are
a young man; this is bad business to
be mixed up in. There was more than
one man present at that murder. Law
YER Watson never could have done it all
himself, and that story of You falling
down and striking the double-barreled
gun against the stones sounds sus-
picious. Now do not let any one put
YOU in hole in this matter; life is still
before you, and it may be bright and
successful" Wallace said nothing in
reply except to ask what the law officers
would do if any one would tell the
whole affair. l told him they often let
that one go unmolestsd. We reached
the jail. | put him in cell, and be-
fore leaving, talked again to him. AS |
closed the door to leave him, he rapped
on it and called me =" back.
"Did you say" asked he,
"that any one had blowedHothe
whole matter.' 'tNo,, 1 said, i" but
some one might and your young life
would be gone" Swell, Mr. Stewars "
said Wallace, ~ will tell you all about
it. Jim Lyons, Bob Pore, and myself
did it! We went there on Saturday
night. I was stationed outside near the
back door to shoot any one who came
out thatway. Jim Lyons shot through
the window and Bob Pore put the mat
tress under the stair aud set fire to it. {"
! rsshed out, said Stewart, for some cit
liens to come in and hear the same
story, and, whilst they listened to it,, l
went to the, Prosecuting Attorney and
laid the matter before him. 81 can
not,n he said, "promise him immunity;
if he wishes to take the chances with the
people and the officers Of the law let
him do so.'"1 1 hurried back and told
young Wallace He said he would take
the chances, and then he went into a
minute account of the movements He
said: "About one hundred yards from
the house is little cave; we stopped
there several hours. You will find, if
you 60 there, broken-lipped bottle that
had whisky in it, a. tin box with caps
and balls, and some crackers and cheese,
all wrapped up in a spotted handker-
chief" 5"'l.H "r' I'd" 1907 'nU'14
II went there at once and got the very
articles he described. On my way back
1 stopped at store; the suspicion had
already been widespread that Jim
Lyons had done the business. 81 The
storekeeper told me he didn't believe it,
because Jim Lyons had stopped on Fri
day night at his place and bought some
things to take with him to his, home in
the mountains. He described the arti-
cles, and said he had wrapped them up
in . spotted handkerchief. I opened
the sachel, said Stewart, and handed
the articles out. "Does that look like
them?" "Those are the very things"
said the storekeeper. -ld '.g,L.I''
/ hurried back to the Courthouse on
ly to be astonished at the full confession
of both Bob Pore and jim Lyons, con-
firming the statement of young Wallace
and duplicating a young man named
Duncan. g. ......-. .r .-.tw lu ~ |
The shadow of Bob Pore ON the wall
had grown, day by day, into a, reality
until now he stood transiixed before me.
I held the keys which closed around his
palpable form, shackled as it was by the
meshes of evidence which kind Provi-
dence had revealed to u.s. 1t seemed as
if I had been driven by an irresistible
power to make this matter. right, and
that 1 could neither stop nor resist until
the whole affair was unraveled and re-
vealed. ...l.. $500. ..l.,.;
We had brought the wounded IMorri-
son in to the trial and had him at the
hotel. l went to the hotel, and, taking
Bob Pore with me, l marched him down
to the hotel to see if the wounded Nor
rison would recognize him. Before
going up stairs threw my short cloak
over his shoulders, and taking his long
hair l showed it up under his hat, as this
was the way Wallace said Pore was
distinguished the night of the murder
He resisted somewhat at this, but l
finished it and walked him up. The
man opened his eyes and at
once exclaimed, "God forgive me for
what l have said against Mr.. Watson,
but this is the man. This is the MUIR
derer!" -r 10 ".f.