SHAKES THE LIQUOR HABIT. DAVE TERRY
Mr. Williams told me about taking the Kella cure at Lampasas. When he
got the sanitarium they made him give up his own whiskey and gave him some
of their own. It might have been drugged, he didn’t know. Uncle Joe
Cleveland took him down there and stayed three days. When he left Mr.
Williams told him maybe he had better take his pistol back with him, that
he didn’t know how he might get.
There he met Mr. Dave Terry, who was taking the cure. (Mr. Terry was
injured in the vicious knife fight in the corridors or on the stairs in
the courthouse at Galveston. This was in court proceedings after the
famous Jaybird-Woodpecker feud and battle on the streets at Richmond. The
fight just flared up again. Mr. Ira Aten, the ranger sergeant sent down to
Richmond, told the whole story to Early Vandale. Evetts Haley him met at
El Centro, California, in 1941. The Terrys were well known people, for
instance, famous Rangers in the Civil War. I once had lunch with Judge W.
W. Terry, for years head attorney for the Santa Fe at Galveston.)
Mr. Williams fell in together, played billiards, had a fine time in
spite of the circumstances, and later drove through the hills in a buggy
with tandem arranged horses. One night Mr. Williams found bandits or
Mexicans were shooting up the town, and the hotel. It was very real to
him. He didn’t say anything about it, and went rather warily up to
breakfast. He felt sure that if it was true they would all be talking
about it.
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CHESLEY'S HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS
BY
HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.
Born: 21 November, 1894
Died: 17 July, 1979