The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-26

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the 1880 II we should have to be delayed
In writing another letter.
We hope everything was made plain IN
the first letter. but IL you want any more
Information put this ad. in aforesaid
papers;
X. Ray-We would like more information
on that matter.
But $4,000 viii be added for trouble and
delay.
| (Signed) X. Raw & CO.
X Ray--we would like more information
on that matter.
NJ. d. Monserrate, General Manager San
| Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railroad Com
| pany.
| June il, 1ees.--ln reply to personal We
VIII try and make things as plan as PCS
sible. and II we fall to present the case
so you can surely understand It, we VIII
grant you an Interview. we, Of course. to
name the place and time and we do the
best we can TO make this business as plain
| TO you as 1t is to us. II you should de sire
an interview insert this ad. In some pa
pers
| \. Ray-We would like to see you at an
| early date.
You viii be perfectly safe, and we Will.
|
trap. We can give you no a .surance OF
your own safety except our word That
WORD We pride ourselves on as being good
as any mans, though scoundres of the
blacklist kind the world may call ux.
when Advertising let ad stay in paper
lour or i've days. so we will be certain
TO see 1t.
In my first letter made a demand nm
you for $500 and after a reasonable length
or time we would commence to destroy
your railroad company's property and
"oulu continue to do so until a settle
iheht Was made charging $1,000 for each
Drldge, trestle, culvert. station platform
Water tank and the wrecking of a train and
S2ooV Tor each life that may be lost in
ihe wrecks. also 5000 for each Waterman
we may have to kill for interfering with
our WORK or asking too many questions.
lhat we would not charge anything for
inc hrst two jobs-they were to show Won
we meant business. That free work was
done last Tuesday night. We struck you
very llBht that time when we could have
struck you hard. but MS we have plentv of
| time. and had promised you i'm a former
| ietter we would 70 a little slow at the
start, so as to convince you how com
| Pieteiy you are In our power before too
| much harm has been done.
IN our last letter We stated that an ad-
Vertlsement would cost you $500. We
purpose or delay, or TO get clews for the
detectives. but when they were in good
| iallh' with an object in bringing about a
| settlement, nothing would be charged for
| the trouble and delay. We are to be the
| Judges In the matter. 1t Ia useless for YOU
! TO place watchmen at your bridges. for
one man can do no harm. and II YOU should
| place too strong guard 1t will compel us
to blow up your train with dynamite
something we do not want to do, but will
| do 1t II necessary. let the consequences be
| what they may.
IL one of us should be killed or cap
| tured II would be only that much harder
| for the railroad, and IL we should all be
| captured, which We do not think possible
could the railroads of this country afford
| to let the case came to trial in the courts :?
| We think not. For imitators would GER
| tainly try to do what we failed to do and
| some Of them would succeed. IT will only
| take little money to do us the balance
of our lives and then this new industry
can die with us. Once made public 1t will
never die.
| We Will change the form OF ADVERTISE
ment from what we had in the first letter
When you get ready for settlement insert
this ad in paper
| Personal-X Ray, we would like to have
a settlement with you as soon as convent
cnt.
to see II YOU wish settlement or an In
| terview If we do any work after the ad
| appears In paper we will not charge any
| thing for said work,
X. Ray & Co.
BY the way was that fellow at Burdett
| who rode a gray horse. a Waterman OF
| yours? He came very near riding over
me on two occasions that night.
X. Ray--I would like to see you at an
early date.
| NJ. u. Monsorrate, San Antonio. Texas
San Antonio. Texas, June 10. 1898 Sir:
In naming the place of your meeting we
viii try and make the road you are to go
AS short and plain possible, so you will
have no trouble in unders landing and ind
ing the way.
On Saturday evening. June 49, s o'clock,
you are to 20 out on South Presa street,
| driving n double team hitched to an OPEN
topped buggy, or II this buggy has n top,
the top must be laid well back so we can
see every thing In the buggy. Follow street
car line that goes down to the Fair
! grounds. stop at small street car station
where the car lines fork. and take off your
coat, and go the remainder OF the way in
| your shirt sleeves, after stopping a couple
| OF minutes proceed on the same road until
you pass the Fair grounds. A short dis
lance below the Fair grounds you turn
| squarcly to the LETT. 90 east little over
one mile through lano where there Is
very little travel; when you come to q
plain road with telegraph wires you turn
back TO the left again and come back to
| town over that read.
You must stop about two minutes when
you first turn to the left; stop again at the
crossing on the first little branch or dry
wash in the rough lane, and again at the
second branch, and again when You cone
to the Floreeyiile road Stop about two
minutes at each OF these places Stop
| again for ten minutes at the first small
bridge You come TO after turning back TO
| town.
II we see everything is o. X. we viii
stop you some where on this road 10y call
ing out Hello. there," YOU must use
the same words in answering us. ana
then obey orders and everything win be
all right
| This is to be a meeting on business,
aud anything you have with YOU will he
safe, but we would rather wou would not
carry gun. for that we would he com
| PEELED In take