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that John Wesley had offered to surrender if he could be pro-
tected. Instead, he related some facts and events that John
Wesley Hardin omitted when writing his autobiography and
which the Hardin family has omitted in giving their version of
what took place in Comanche. These things put a different light
on or contradict some of the things that have been told.
Members of the Hardin family were kept under close surveil-
lance to prevent them from giving information or aid to the fugi-
tives. A morning or so after Webb was killed, when two women of
the family were seen getting into a buggy and driving off, they
were followed. After the women had been driving about in a seem-
ingly aimless way until they were nearing the outskirts of Co-
manche, they were stopped. When asked where they were going,
they replied they were taking a bundle of washing to "Aunt"
---, naming a colored washerwoman of the town. "We'd like to
see the washing," one of the deputies said. Over the protests of
the women the bundle was opened. Among the rags, garments,
and household linens it held were the guns and ammunition the
women had been trying to smuggle to the outlaws.
Soon after their visit to John Wesley and his companions at
Round Mountain, Joe Hardin and the Dixon brothers were put
under technical arrest and confined in the makeshift jail in Co-
manche. About the same time, Preacher and Mrs. Hardin and
such of their children as were still living under their roof were
taken to town. This was done partly for their protection and
partly that a trap might be set for John Wesley and Jim Taylor
at the Hardin home.
When two days passed without a visit or a word from Joe, John
Wesley became worried. He wanted news about Jane and Mollie;
he wanted to know whether Doc Brosius had sent word that the
Hardin-Taylor herd of which he was in charge had reached Ham-
ilton. He was also in pain from the gunshot wound inflicted by
Webb, which had not received proper care. He and Taylor de-
cided to run the risk of going to Preacher Hardin's home.
Unless the gunmen went to the Hardin home twice, there are
two versions of what took place after they arrived: the version
in a book by a well-known Texas writer who was furnished ma-
terial by the Hardin family, and the one related by ex-Sheriff
Carnes and other pioneers of Comanche.
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