WHEN HE KNOCKED OUT HENRY GOODE

(This I understood was when he was tending bar in the old basement saloon on the northwest corner).

He said that at the time he knocked out Henry Goode with the six shooter, Mr. Williams was playing billiards with old Captain Hunt, who lived on the Cow House. Neilly Rutherford, the lawyer, Uncle Tom Pierson. Goode and Captain Hunt had had some trouble and he sorta thought maybe Goode had come over to have it out with him. He came drunk and mean from Matheson’s saloon. (He has previously told about when he went to wait on Goode he got mean and he struck him with his six shooter, and thought maybe he had killed him).

He said in the old days when a man did something like this, he just left the country, "skedaddled." So Mr. Williams went down to Galveston right after that and stayed some time. He thought that maybe he had killed Goode. When he came back on the mail hack from Hico to Hamilton, he rode with Mr. Colin George, later the famous lawyer. George told him that he had better get off at the cemetery, which was on the road, and let him go on into Hamilton and found out about things. Mr. George Mr. George reported back that Mr. Goode was getting better. So he came on in.

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