YOUNG MAN NAMED CLARY

Clary was a very handsome man, not so young, and he dressed fastidiously, shining boots always seemed new.  It was he that Mr. Williams said he met that time on the road to Marlin with Ault Ferguson and Humpy Dave White. That there was nothing much to White one way or another. That Ferguson was very mean, a tall, gangling, fellow with a pock-marked face. He said this was the last time he saw him until my father as deputy sheriff brought him back here to jail from Arkansas.

(A neighbor said that Miss L. Hendricks worked for the Eidsons, our next door neighbors, a sister of Crockett Hendrix. That her dress came to the ground behind and to the knees in front. That she talked to the stove, to the bread, and so on. Mr. Hendrix was reputed to be a lesser gang or mob boss and at the bottom of a good deal of the trouble, and like a few others harbored some bad boys. Drowned later in an overflow of Honey Creek, it was said. Not to be confused with Crockett King, who as at the time the corresponding boss in Coryell County. When Ed Cash was hanged in Coryell County, they bought a rope from Mrs. Brown. Among the gang were Puckett Boys, Hendrix, Charlie Smith, whom I remember. Much confusion and litigation out of this, broke up the gang. King died, but many always contended he was still alive - as they did Napoleon, Billy the Kid, and many others. I knew Cash’s father and brother Virgil living at Comanche.)

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