The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-07-07

Mountain creek I told him whs, biz mother
| said W. came from here 10
Dallas bore wo met again Jerry Cant n
short time after this Pollard propo,ed 10 inc
~ 80 out ~ wnere the roads fork for Mans.
field and Cedar Hill and there rob m old
man who kept o store; he (Polsrd) said ho
had seen bi. money; told him would have
noihingsto do with IL; he said he and Cant
intended TO do so whether went or not; tho
evening before Schumacher was killed, Pollard
and l started out tho pike leading west of
town to melon patch that WAS ut the end
OF the trestle on the railroad; we overlook, on
the pike, Nelse Walker: told him we were
going out on the prairie for some horses; 10
order to make him believe cur story we went
further THAI was necessary to get to the
PATCH we LETT him at the forks of
the road and went back through the BUSH
90, stole what melons we wanted, and came
on back to town; l left Pollard after we
crossed the river, which was before shutdown,
an d did not see him any more until next
morning, when | met him and Jerry Cant
they then told me that they had, the nigh
before, robbed and killed Schumacher and
said they only got nine dollsrs; with the
money was the counterfeit fifty cents which
Cant handed me and said l could have
this was the piece OF money that WAS found
on me when Was arrested and produced on
my trial; Pollard also showed ne the key
lhst was found in the trunk in which ne and
kept cur clothes; that, too, was
proven to be Schumaker's they then
wanted me to swear under penalty of
death never to tell what they had done, this |
refused TO do; then they proposed that l
should leave the country with them; this
also refuse them: ~ then iold me if
ever CAV" them a"ay l woul> go the way
Schumaker went; | told the,l was not
atrsii but could keep their secret; since then |
have never seen Cant, for he left for |
Dallas that day; when was arrested was |
hiding from the officers for the troubles we
had gotten into before We fl 'st left Dallas; |
had been in Jail two or three days wheL |
Judge Aldredge, then county attorney,
called to see me; but l refused 10 |
tell him snytbi that l knew; when
saw how circumstances were setting in |
against me sent for him and told him all
that know about the case; where I tiirk |
made my most fatal mistake was when was |
taken before the,grand jury 1 refused to tell |
them what had told the county attorney; |
believe if had told the jury Whist did him,
| would then heve been released; since thst
time now nearly five years sgo, 1 have suf-
fered more in feelings than if | had b, en-
hung, and would now rather die than live the
same time over; when / am hung l will be
hung for just what l have here sail, for out.
side OF this had noting whatever TO do
with The murder of Schumacher.
ADAM THOMPSON.
DALLAS, Texas, April 1881.
TFlT SCAFFOLD
was erected ne west side of the Jail in
the yard, and n which Allen Wright
WAS haoged il at of last year for the
murder of Jes.J Wicks, both colored. 1t is
Between seven end eight feet drop, with trap
door. The prisoner could see the erection OF
the scstfJld from his cell window, and few
days ago he asked one oftbe guards tc spring
the trap to see how it WORKED. and when the
guard did so, Thompson fell back in swoon