Rangers Sovereignty - The True Story of the Criminal Pursuits, Campaigns and Battles of Texas Rangers in 19th Century by Daniel W. Roberts

Author:Daniel W. Roberts [Roberts, Daniel W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Memoir, Historical, Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
ISBN: 9788027240449
Publisher: Musaicum Books
Published: 2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

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"We left Laredo under secret orders to move Company ''D" to Uvalde County, and to await further orders. Guessing was in order, and my men discussed the matter around the camp fire, and the topic lasted for months. They knew nearly as much about it as I did, and developments were slow. I kept my guess to myself, which was, that we would not be moved too far from the Rio Grande until the low rumblings of discontent died out with Mexico. Captain ''Pat" Dolan had worked Uvalde County pretty well along the line of local disorders, and we could afford to go fishing.

We camped Company "D" twelve miles east of Uvalde, on the Sabinal River, and on the mail line from San Antonio to Uvalde. Captain Coldwell's Company "A" moved on up to the headwaters of Guadalupe River, under command of First Sergeant George Arrington. (Mr. Arrington was subsequently commissioned a captain in the Frontier Battalion.) We were somewhat restless in our Sabinal camp. Our training had been, under quick orders, and fight for results. There were only a few petty artists in that neighborhood, whose occupation ran down as low as stealing a pair of hobbles, and we waited on them just to ''keep our hands in". We went ''sure enough" fishing, to the Frio River, eight miles from camp. Mrs. Roberts went with us, in the ambulance, together with three Rangers. In breaking through thick brush to get to a large water hole we knew of we spied a real leopard, which seemed to be surveying us as "undesirable citizens". He appeared to be tame, but we didn't try to pet him. We let him go ''Scott free''.

When we reached the water, and cast our lines, we looked down the river to a shoal and could see an object that looked unusual, as we knew that spot quite well, from frequent visits there, to a wild turkey roost. We laid aside our fish poles, and went to investigate. When we got to the object we saw that it was a dead man floating on top of the water. We sent Mrs. Roberts back to camp, and to get help to take care of him. Sergeant L. P. Seiker returned with three or four men, and took him out of the water, when he found a very large rock tied to his middle, which we weighed subsequently, thinking we might need it in the possibility of future evidence. The rock weighed 52 pounds. We had stayed there to try our hand as detectives. We surveyed the appearance of things in sight, and concluded that the man had been thrown off of a big bluff, on the west side of the river, and that the rock held him at, or near the bottom, until he floated to shallow water and came to the surface. He was so bleached by the water that we couldn't tell whether he was a white man or a Mexican. We

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