. Sixty years in Texas. ROBERT WARNER. JUDGE JOHN WARNER Sixty Years in Texas. 83 had quite a sum of money. My father thought hemight be waiting for an opportunity to get it, andskip the country. Mr. Warner had it sewed up in abelt, a thousand or twelve hundred dollars in gold,that he wore around him. My father was so uneasyabout it that he went to Warners camp just afterthey reached the neighborhood and called him outto talk with him, and put him on guard, and whenhe mentioned his fears the old gentleman laughedheartily and told my father that he had lost his beltof money as they came along.
. Sixty years in Texas. ROBERT WARNER. JUDGE JOHN WARNER Sixty Years in Texas. 83 had quite a sum of money. My father thought hemight be waiting for an opportunity to get it, andskip the country. Mr. Warner had it sewed up in abelt, a thousand or twelve hundred dollars in gold,that he wore around him. My father was so uneasyabout it that he went to Warners camp just afterthey reached the neighborhood and called him outto talk with him, and put him on guard, and whenhe mentioned his fears the old gentleman laughedheartily and told my father that he had lost his beltof money as they came along. He had taken the beltoff and put it under his head at night, and in themorning there was some haste in getting away andtheir blankets were thrown in the wagon, and themoney left in the grass. Reed, that morning veryearly, left the camp to try to kill a deer, and when hereturned to the camp they were all gone. He pickedup the belt of money and buckled it around him,and started after them, and about ten or elevenoclock overtook the wago
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