The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964 Page: 62
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memory, "we surely sifted the sand in our hurry to get away
from there."
About May 5, Joe Hardin and a group of men went to Brown
County to get some cattle Joe owned but over which there had
been litigation. The possibility that he might not get possession
of the cattle easily led Joe to take Bill Cunningham, a deputy
sheriff, along, though the latter had no jurisdiction in Brown
County. Jim Taylor and John Wesley Hardin went along too,
maybe for the ride, maybe to add the weight of their six shooters
and reputations to Joe's claim to the cattle.
The men-Bill Cunningham, Jim Milligan, Jim Taylor, the
Hardin brothers, and their cousins Jim and Ham Anderson,
Alec Barrickman, and Tom and Bud Dixon-got possession of
the cattle and started home with them without having any
trouble. When night overtook them they stopped at Logan's
Gap, about ten miles southwest of Comanche, to pen the herd
at a ranch owned by a Mrs. Waldrip.
While at the supper table that night John Wesley Hardin
heard the name Charlie Webb for the first time.
There is a wide difference between what Hardin has written
in his autobiography and what is told in a recapitulation of
the testimony of Bill Cunningham, a witness for the State at
the trial of Hardin.
Hardin wrote:
At the supper table Mrs. Waldrup told us how one Charles Webb, a
deputy sheriff of Brown County, had come to her house and arrested
Jim Buck Waldrup [her son] and had cursed and abused her. She told
him that no gentleman would curse a woman. Of course, we all agreed
with her. ... There is no doubt but that we all sympathized with
Mrs. Waldrup, who had been so abused by Charles Webb.
The recapitulation of Bill Cunningham's testimony was in an
issue of the Comanche Chief published nearly a half-century
ago.
When we sat down to supper the lady of the house [Mrs. Waldrip]
told the crowd that Charlie Webb had arrested her son, and if she
could, she would have killed him. One of the party said they would
get rid of him for her when they got him to the right place. There
was a great deal of talking and juggling about this and other
matters during the night.
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