The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-02

Mountain creek l told him what bis motbe,
sMd; we came from there IA
Dallas; here we me, again Jerry Cant: \
snort time after this Pollard proposed 10 me
to 60 GU. to waere , ,sc rosds fork for Mans.
Held and Cedar Hill, aud there rob an Cd
man who kept store; he (Pollsrd) said be
nsd seen bis money; told him would have
notnint o do with IL; he said he and Cant
intended to do 80 whether went or not; the
evening bef re Schumacher was killed, Pollard
and l started out the pike lesdisg west of
town to q melon patch that was al n end
OF the trestle on the railroad; we oyt RIO, h on
the pike. Nelse Walker; told him we were
gong out on the prairie for some horses: in
order to make him believe cur story We went
turtner than was necessary to get TO the
patch; We lett him at the forks of
tue road and went back through the bush.
90, stole what melons we wanted, and came
on back TO town; left Pollard after we
crossed the river, which was before shutdown.
an q did not see him any more until next
morning, when l met him and jerry Cant .
they then told me that they had, the nipbt
before, robbed and killed Schumacher. And
ssld they only got nine dollars: with the
money was the counterfeit afty cents which
Cant handed me and said could have
'nis was the piece OF money that was found
on me when l was arrested and produced on
my trial; Pollard also showed ne the kew
!hs' was found in the trunk in which ne and
Kept our clothes; that, too, was
proven to be Schumskers; they then
wanted me to swear under penalty OF
death never to tell what they had done, this
lreiused to do; then they proposed that /
should leave the country with them; this |
also refused them g. then I'd me If |
ever CAV" them ANY, would q, the way
Schumacher went; | told then [ was moi
afrsli but could keep their secre,; since then
havs never seen Cant, for he left for
Dallas that day; when was arrested was
hiding from the officers tor the troubles we
had gotten into before We fl st left Dallas:
had been in Jail two or three DAYS wher
Judge Aldredge, then county attorney,
called to SEQ me; but | refused 10
tell him anytbi' & that l knew; when
saw now circumstances were setting in
against me sent for him and told him all
mat know about the case; where TIN X |
made my most fatal mistake was when WAS
taken beore the'grand jury refused 10 tell
them what had told The county attorney:
believe if had told the Jury what did him,
would then heve been relea>ed; since that
time now nearly five years pgo, have suf.
Tered more in feelings than il had b, en-
hung, and would now rather die than live the
same time over; when am hung | will be
hung for just what have here said, for out
side OF this had noting whatever 10 dc
with the murder of Schumaker.
ADAM THOMPSON.
DALLAS, Texas, April s 1851.
THF sCAFFoLD
was erected west side of the Jail il
the yard and j which Allen Wright
was hsoged in /. of last year for the
murder OF Jess !, cks, both colored. 1t il
Between seven and eight feet drop, with trsy
door. The prisoner could see the erection O
the scsffold from his cell window, and few
days ago he asked ono ofths guards to sprip.
the trap to 500 how it WORKED, and when tn
guard did SO, Thompson fell back in swoor