The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-11-30
THE OTHER SIDE.
Jim scorr INTERVIEWED

uls atatensut Of the Causes HAT Lead Il
10 the shooting, Together With IN
Accurate Account Of All That IL
Occurred Before and AT.
ter the Tragedy. IL
Yesterday MORNINGS $50 east-bound
Texas 4 Pacific train came snorting
and pufIiug into the downtown depot
about on time. Sheriff Smith and City
Narshal Arnold alightei on the plat
form accompanied by man Of slender |
build, about s feet 10 inches tall, dark |
hair and mustashe and dark gray eyes.
This was James Scott, the slayer OF
uBle Mack" the haskman on the even
ING of the 18th inatan Scout
e has already been puolished
In TIN HERALD, was captured In FL
Paso last Thursday evening.
Scott WAS Immediately conveyed TO
the county Jail, where he was visited
bv quite y number of his friends dur
Ing the day. Late In the evening a
HERALD representative called to see |
him ana was readily granted an aud
fence IN tho jAilel's apartment, INTO
which Mr.. Scott was brougnt: Inc
general appearance OF the prisoner
showed that his trouble bore heavily
upon him. He readily consented 70
give his version OF the facts ana or
cumstarlces 0f the shooting when so
requested, and told his story in an
open, frank way.
The following is the substance OF
what he said: "On the Sunday before
the shooting took my wife and two
little children aud went ont IN the
country short distance pecan hQHti
ing. took nav pistol along, thipkfng,
perhaps, might see squirrel OF some-
thing like that. When We returned 1
had TO 20 to the jail on some business.
and nv wife took the pecans and the
pistol and went IS "Big Mack's" house
10 see her mother. When she went
home she, forgot the pistol and loft II
there. aud that Is how my pistol came
there.
to guard the county conviots..
who were at work on the roads. l
came back 70 town "a usual that even
Ing and LETT the eonvicts at the jail:
On my way home ! met couple OF
friends and We wentinto saloon near
the square and had several drinks.
staid There quite q little while, and
every time i started to 70 they both
insistod that I should stay little
longer.
HWhen got homo fund my wife
mad because had not come In time
for supper, and she refused to give me
ANYTHING to eat. went to bed With
ont supper and said nothing more
about It. On the following morning.
which was Tuesday, my wife was
still mad. and at first refused to cook
breakfast. I finally persuaded her e
get me something TO eat, but she would
not fix me up smack for dinner, te
She hsd been In the habit Of doing; sc
went of without 1t. While we were
eating breakfast that morning my WIG
kept making threats to me, being Bill
in y very ugly humor."
"What do you mean by making
threats" in.errogated THH HERALl
man.
killed, aud that big Mack would d.
It; that would be hauled out Just O.
big Mack had hauled that man bacl
Of Schneider's house. She KEEP
up this kind Of talk until starte
toward her, when she went out OF tn
door and left the house, going to hi
Mack's,' ] suppose.
~ then put the baby to sleep an
went to my work, leaving my littl
four.year-old boy playing with M
Supports little boy, in whose yard
live, hat ween Camp street and Patte
son avenue. a.
evening, aud got to the jail about
O'Clock. Mr.. Rhodes, the jailer, ask,
me-siter l had pat the convicts
their cells-if had had
foss of any kind, as Mr.. Petty
son had told him that big Mack al
my wife had been to the court.hou
and made q oomplaint against mo.
told him had had no fuss with an
body that would warrant complai
being made against me-"
III then put my gun across \
shoulder and started out OF the do
Mr.. Rhodes asked me what was goi
to do with the gup, that l had net
leave 1t at the jail. told him tha
he'd gotten 1t wet several times, y
that / was going to take It home W
mo and oil IL up, this being the gu
used In guarding conYicts."
safer I left the jail went by .
Mack's home to get my pistol, VIII
had been left there on the Sundsy
fore by my wife.
"As / came up Jackson str
towards tho house l saw Mrs. M q
standing in her back door. l as
her II Matte, meaning my wife.
there, and sue called big Mack
came out AN o sked him II my '
was there, that / wanted to see
He went back into the house, told
and followed her out.
~ said to her: Come on Matte
home with me aud let's have no n
u this foolishness.'
"sNo, I'll not go; II don't inten
live with you any longer, she said
~ prevailed and kept persuat
her TO return home, when
Mack Clipped In and wanted To k
what the trouble was"
~ said: MY wife has threatened
life with you aad that would "
hauled out behind Schneider's u
dead."
AZ understand that you say til
Matte comes to my house, you
burn IT,"
III said this was mistake, q
had never said II. then asked
told him this, and DO said my
hsd.v
IBig Mack then said: 'ro.mo
when this case against you Is o'
am going TO make your wife 20 uI
make complaint against you OF tn
ening to burn my house."
~ tol,l him he would do wrong
did thai, an / had never made
such tureat. then asked wher
little boy WAS, no having always
fonder or me than Of his mother.
~ wife replied that no was In tho no
"sBig Mack thcn said: Yes
Cd. and he is going to stay the
~ Will sea about that / reptile
"'you are an officer, amt
ssTad big Mack, addressing me
II reuli-d, Il am no c)mmiss
onicor, pus Mr.. smith, the sherii
given lus tas ri9ht u carry o gur
guar tho oonvicts.'"
~ '"tYau have two guns on
havia - v uY asked big Mack
III told hun / had, an my
IS hnu brought my pistol out AMI b
20 Il 10 me whom she Dame out
n house."
WYou 0--dd--n s--n OF n b--h,
make you eat them too replied
Mack, Ut the same time throwi