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HONORABLE COLIN GEORGE

 

He did end up marrying her [Miss Wild Bill Akers] and in later years she was said to have become a big society woman. Colin George was born and raised in west Hamilton, at the place I remember as the Millwee place, not there now. His father had a store, while Colin roved the town perhaps dragging dead cattle. He became a lawyer and was located at Stephenville. Mr. Williams said the boys got him elected district attorney, in the convention. soon after one of their friends got into trouble and they thought, of course that Colin George would help them. He did not and he said they had to kidnap the main state’s witness and hide him in another house and thus prevent the trial. When very young I once wandered into the courtroom here and Colin George was making the closing argument as special prosecutor in the trial of Dr. Hubbard, a dentist, I think of Hico, for forgery or swindling. I believe it was the most scathing jury speech I ever heard. Was told years later he was convicted but that the higher court reversed the case on his argument. Mr. George, who also liked fruit trees was when young a runner. Once in a neighboring town he challenged someone to run, or was challenged. He pulled off his pants and had on a track suit and easily won the race. Years later he moved to Brownsville, where he became a partner of Mr. Seabury, later appointed federal judge by Woodrow Wilson. He was interested in buying Persian rugs had a Mexico boy to follow him on the street and carry his pipe. In 1905 my fat her had Tom Main and me to come down to Austin when he was in the legislature and hear Teddy Roosevelt, the first president to come to Texas and a Republican at that. Mr. Seabury introduced him briefly. Many years later I saw him mentioned in the papers then an old man. I wrote him a letter, saying when ten years old I heard him introduce President Roosevelt. I have his reply. He said that he remembered the occasion well and that it worried him--that he wanted, of course, to show all courtesy from the State of Texas and at the same time to show "all possible contempt." That was the way they were in those days.]

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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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