The Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 13, 1984 Page: 9 of 16
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Coleman, Texas, November 13, 1984
My Hands
Are Tye-eed
By Bill Laws
The following events which I
remember from long ago are basi-
cally true, but there will be a certain
amount of paraphrasing and some of
it may be idle talk which I heard
when I was there. But one thing for
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certain Johnnie Sands' wife did
drown in Timber Creek and there
were several stories circulating
around about how it happened.
There was a police investigation but
it was termed an accidental death
and no charges were filed. There
had been talk about her slipping
around and the neighbors suspected
there was some kind of hanky-
panky involved.
Johnnie Sands was near 70 when
he married Betty Hueit. She was 25
and pretty. He had been married
twice before he and Betty married.
For about two years they seemed
to get along about as good as any
married couple. Then came disaster.
Johnnie had a heart attack. That
was before open heart surgery, so
Johnnie lived on, creeping around
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between bed and chair and walking
in the yard for short spells. Betty
carried on as a wife should, waiting
on him and tending to his many
needs. But the rumor was that she
had been heard saying she wished
he would recover or “else”. When I
heard about all this long ago, I of
course, knew nothing about how
heart trouble affects a person. Or,
how useless a man becomes around
the home. It completely changes a
man’s outlook on life. Aggressive-
ness changes to apathy. What you
wanted most is not attractive any-
more. Well, I suppose this happened
to Mr. Sands and if so, it left Betty
with a problem. They still went to
church and other places, but she
became irritable, restless and in-
clined to pick quarrels with her
husband. They said she began to go
places alone. Somebody said they
saw her in Mt. Pleasant drinking
and using obscene language. She
was seen in Sulphur Springs with a
man. Sometimes she would be seen
in Hunt County. Somebody saw her
in Ladonia. (Ladonia is where by
Grandpa Foster was living when we
last heard from him). Once Johnnie
was putting gas in the T-Model car
and found a pistol under the front
seat. (Early day cars had the gas
tank under the front seat). Betty
confessed that one of her friends
had loaned it to her. She said, “I
thought you might use it.” Johnnie
took the gun and kept it under his
pillow a while. One day he said,
"Honey, I am tired of this kind of life
and you are tired of me, but I just
don’t have the nerve to shoot
myself. They say drowning is an
easy way to die. Let’s go to that
deep hole in the creek and I will get
out of your way." Betty said, “Ok,
but I doubt if you have the nerve to
go through with it.”
So that night Betty fixed him a
strong drink to build up his nerves
and played the piano to sooth his
nerves. Eventually they stood on
the banks of Timber Creek with
Johnnie looking down at the water
below. He said, “Gosh, I bet it’s cold.
I would probably just swim out if I
jump in”. Betty said, “I’ll fix that.
Pull off your belt". Johnny removed
his belt and with it she tied his
hands behind him. “Now iumn in
Drave man”, she said. Johnnie walk-
ed to the edge, stood there awhile,
then said, “I just can’t do it.” Betty
said, “Yes you will", and ran down
the slope with out-stretched arms to
push him in. Johnnie stepped to one
side and Betty plunged off the bank.
Johnnie heard her say “you s-o-b”
and she splashed into the cold, deep
water. (She could not swim). She
came up once and screamed, "Save
me, Johnnie”. Johnnie said, “I can't,
I can’t. My hands are Tye-eed."
Another tragedy happened in
that area when my mother was a
child and they lived at Savoy. It
seems George Murrell and his girl-
friend were not getting along too
good. They were engaged and
George had built a home for them.
But on the day they were to be
married the girl postponed it be-
cause George did not have a white
vest to wear at the wedding. Then
later he saw her buggy riding with
another man. They had a quarrel
and someone later told her George
had borrowed a pistol from Bob
Ashley. So the girl ran over to the
Ashley house and said, “Bob, get
your pistol away from George.” So
Bob strolled over to the Murrell
house and told George he wanted
his gun as he was going fishing and
might want to shoot a coon. George
sajd, “Sure, it is under the buggy
seat at the barn”. As Bob approach-
ed-the barn a gunshot roared in the
Murrell house. George had commit
ted suicide. Next day Grandma
Foster and Mother went over there.
There were no funeral homes then.
George’s body was in a coffin in the
front room. Mother, who was five,
went into a side room and there was
the bed where George had killed
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himself. On the pillow was a lot of
dried blood and bits of brains.
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Autry, Milton. The Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 13, 1984, newspaper, November 13, 1984; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth735367/m1/9/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Coleman Public Library.