The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-06-17
MILTON GOLDEN
IN COUNTY JAIL
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way to the house of a colored man
in Oak Cliff and remained there UNI
til Sunday morning."
That's mistake ! didn't so to
anybody's house that night"
1T was reported that you went to
the home of white farmer west of
Dallas late Sunday afternoon and
asked for something to eat. Is that
report correct?" asked the reporter.
Golden said this report was true.
He said he went to the house and
offered to buy something to eat. A
woman fixed him something. He did
not remember what it was. He
thought he paid her ten or fifteen
cents. He knew he gave her fifty
cents and she gave him back some
change.
There was a man at the house
when you went there was there
not?"
There was, but / don't know
what became of him. | know he left
the house to go somewhere. He was
not there when ! left"
Golden was asked if he knew
whether or not Sheriff Ledbetter's
dogs were taken out to this house
and set on his trail. He said at first
he knew nothing about it, but finally
admitted that he heard the baying
of the hounds.
When asked how he managed to
throw the dogs off the scent he
feigned ignorance and said he did
not remember how he managed to
eIude them.
How about that skunk story"
asked the reporter, and Golden
laughed for the first time drfring the
interview.
You see Mr.. Forbes about that"
he said "Mr. Forbes has already
been telling you something. Yes,
that is how | lost the trail to the
dogs, and you can bet l was tickled
nearly to death to see that polecat.
] knew the dogs could follow no kind
of a trail where a skunk had been,
and so I kicked him a few times, and
the dogs were crowding me mighty
close, too. When | saw they could
follow me no longer and when the
officers had returned to town with
place, and started east. | went
around Dallas and continued east
? ward until ! landed in East Texas.
] spent month there and then went
over into Louisiana"
Golden said he remained in Louis
lana until November, when he went
to Arkansas. He remained in that
state only a short time and made his
way to Kansas. In Kansas he chang
ed his name to Henry Allen and work
ed some time on the public roads for
a road commissioner. He said he
held the scrapers. Later in the fall
he went down into Oklahoma and
picked cotton awhile, going under
the name of VIII Warren. He went
back into Kansas and then returned
to Oklahoma this. spring to chop cot
ton
And this job of chopping cotton
he continued, proved unlucky for
me- If | hadn't taken that job
would have been free today. After
working a few days ] decided 10
leave that section and had gone to
the little town of Yale to get my
check cashed when | was arrested
was sitting on the depot platform
waiting for the train when an Off
Ger came up and told me to stand
up. He said he wanted to see if
filled the description of "a man want.
ed in Texas for whom he had pa
pers. When | stood up he covered
me with a gun and told me | was
under arrest. That's all there is tt
it and l am here in Jail.
Golden was asked if he went arm
ed all the time he was on the dodge
He said he did and that he carried
45-caliber Colts revolver. 1t wa:
Dy a mere CudHCe tndt NE ulu III
have his gun with him the day he
was arrested.
He was asked if he knew where
his wife was. He said he did not L
she was in Oklahoma he was no
aware Of it, He said he had not seer
her and denied meeting her in Den
iSon q faw months ago
Asked as 20 mis- ;se he said III
was 80 years old and was married
just a short time before he shot Con
stable Conger
Golden said he was not in Louisi
ana last spring when Constable Nc
Calpin was over there looking fol
him
The arrest of Golden was effect
eG late last Saturcfy afternoon b.
Deputy Sheriff Al Goldsby of Payne