TOM WOODS

It was Tom Woods (there was a later Tom Woods), saloon keeper at Hico, he said killed Craig in Erath County. He was up for trial and Mr. Williams said he and Bill Fuller kidnapped the main state witness and took him to Rocky Martin’s and kept him. They helped put Collin George in office as district attorney. They went to him and told him "Our friends come first and last and all the time," and wanted him to let him go. George told him." You oughtn’t to ask me to do that."

He asked them twice if they had killed the witness when he didn’t show up. Later Woods was tried and sent to the penitentiary and was pardoned out. Said he had a letter from him. They got him pardoned. All they would say was that Craig needed killing. His bar tender wouldn’t tell a lie and evidently his evidence was against him, and was the reason they kept him away at the first trial.

(Colin George was later a partner of Seabury, former speaker of the house, at Brownsville. In a letter to Mr. Seabury, then a retired federal judge down there, I told this story, and don’t know what he thought about it. Did say stories about his former partner were interesting.)

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