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THEY HAD TO KIDNAP WITNESS

That he and other friends had backed Colin George for district attorney, and he was elected. Soon after that a friend of theirs was going to be tried in Stephenville for a killing or a shooting. Remembering that they had backed Colin George for the prosecutor’s job, he and another went over to Stephenville to take to him There was no accommodation to him. He would not relax at all. All they could do was get the state’s main state’s witness, carry him out to a vacant house in the country, and hide him. Court would be over in two or three days...

(Collin George was born and raised in the east part of Hamilton County. I understand he was born there. His father was an early day merchant. Colin was an athlete, a very fast runner, went over the country and won prizes. The first of my recollection he lived at Stephenville. As a boy I once wandered into the courtroom here, not knowing what it was all about, and Colin George as a special prosecutor was making the closing argument in the trial of a Mr. Hubbard of Hico for forgery or swindling, and it was the most soothing speech I have heard in court to this day. Mr. George moved to Brownsville, became a partner with Mr. Seaberry, whom I remember as the Speaker of the House when Teddy Roosevelt came to Texas. He collected Persian rugs, had a small Mexican to follow and carry his pipe on the streets. He married Miss Akers, a girl who lived down Pecan Creek, a girl popular with the cowboys in an early day.)

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CHESLEY'S  HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS

BY

HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.

Born: 21 November, 1894

Died: 17 July, 1979

 

 

 
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