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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