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this was on Tuesday. I had not seen anyone of my family that day. I know nothing of the killing of Wash, only what I have heard. Affidavit on which the warrant was fined was read to the witness & he acknowledged that he made it. 

On Sunday evening the party hunting me were about sixty yards from me. I heard Mr Vick say that if the boys wanted to shoot, let them come out & we will shoot with them, Wash & Alex had pistols (many six shooters) that day. 

On the Sunday evening Tom Cowan, C. Vicks, Bill Tubbs, Presley Ward & Frank Bushwall composed the crowd when I saw on the Iron's Creek.  I know that Mr. Bushwall was a constable, I am certain that Mr. Crist. Vick is the man who made the remark.  Mr. Tubb & I live about a mile apart.  He was in the field with a gun on Saturday before Wash was killed, Mr. Tubbs in Potters part of the field went to where Mr. Potter was that is the way that I knew he was there.  In the conversation with Tubbs today which is the only one I have had with him since the killing he also said Mr. Cowan let him (Tubbs) have some bacon last spring, which Tubbs had promised to pay Cowan in work whenever he wanted it.

Direct Examination returned
Mr. Vick has been living at the Goodloe plantation for several months & told me  that it was for my protection, if he has ever done so I didn't know it.  Mr. Ward has never paid me for the 45 pounds of cotton.

Transcription Notes:
Albert & Susan Mattison Goodloe of East Bexar County, Texas, plantation owners whose sons fought in the Civil War.