The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-28
A Card From Cameron.

- &oh0 ~ O0shCH09.
CAMERON, May Is. lsSl.
To the Editor Of the Herald:
A slip in your paper. relating 10 the al
legged conveyance of tools to aid in the es.
cape of R. ]. Boykin, Jr., has Just been
handed me. The statements made are quite
erroneous, and ask you to be kind enough
TO publish this communication.
Numerous Inaccurate reports in reference
TO young Boykin have gone forth, which
l have not deemed it worth while to cor.
rect. l believe that all the errors, or at
least most Of them, have occurred
from the haste with which the compannics-
tions we're sent and not from Intentional
desire to misrepresent. "A
The facts, as detailed by the sHlriff and
iailor on the examining trial, arer simply
these: On Sunday evening Mrs. B nd my.
self visited young Boy kin in the i8.l; Mrs.
B. carrying him pair of psntalooAs. The
bundle containing the paItaloons WAS ex-
amined and passed in to young Boykin.
Mrs. B and the jailor went togelhEs to the
cell Of young Boykis. l .stopped
to talk TO prisoner in another
cell. Mrs. b. had some
conversation with the yourg man, tho i.ilor
just by h side, when Boykln asked Ter il
she had brought hip anything to rs,Js. She
replied, yes, lwo'papers, the Camere4s Senli-
mel and the Galveston News, took e sm out
of her pocket and handed them - Boy kin
Mra. B. had been in the bsbitiT giving
young Boykin papers and msgaziD :.
just as she did 20, the sheriff iIsho was
standing close by, remarked, | wouhj like to
see the papers. Mrs. B. Immediately apol-
ogzed tor forgetting the rules and said, Bob
hand them back Bob had thrown them on
his bed in the corner of the cell
Another prisoner straightway poked
them TO the sheriff through the grstes. The
sheriff examined them and saw ho,hing in
them. As soon as Mrs. B. and myself left
the jail, >the.sherif went to his houst, leaving
the jsilor to watch, got his cell Keys, came
back and found the tools mentioned, in the
mattress OF smother prisoner. There was
proof OF recent saving done in the cell.
The article in your paper lately. ut is
rum"red that Boy kin, ST., denies that he
knew anything about Mrs. B. intending any
such conduct He says that no advised him
not to do tho act" IN
know not how such rumor osuld have
originated, unless 1t was from what | said to
the officer, who arrested me the next morn.
ing rs was going into the court house.
After reading me the warrant, he remarked
there was also warrant for Mrs. BoyAip.
who was charged with having put the tools
IN the Jail. | replied she could not have
done it, ss she knew was opposed TO it and
'he had likewise expressed herself, and We
both knew tina. it would be tho height of
folly, and both believed that tho boy would
be acquitted.
AT the conclusion Of the evidence in the
examining court stated to the
court that though l claimed
the innocence Of both Mrs. Boykin
and myself and did net think the evidence
sufficient to bind over any one, l wished to
share any supposed guilt of hers, and if she
were bound over desired to be bound over
also.
The inference from your article is, that I
virtually acknowledged that Mrs. B. did the
act. This have never done by the slightest
intimation or innuendo.
wish this, not as affecting tho charge
against my wife and myself, but to correct
mistake that might prejudice the csse Of my
son on his trial. Very respectfully,
X j, POYKIN. Sr.