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ward at once, and related the facts as previously stated 
to me. My intention was now to keep a guard over 
the prisoner, and deliver him to the authorities on our 
arrival at San Antonio; for which purpose he was 
placed in a tent, with two men to guard him. 
I stated to the family that the prisoner should be 
delivered to the authorities for trial, which in a mea- 
sure pacified them. Bui for this, an attempt would 
doubtless have been made to take his life, word 
having been sent to the neighboring ranches of the 
occurrence. The man, I told them, was not a mem- 
ber of the Commission, but a Texan teamster, hired at 
Indianola. Afterwards, learning the poverty of the 
family, that the deceased was its main stay, and that 
the expense of the funeral would be great, I gave the 
father one hundred dollars. 
During the evening, before the guards had been 
posted, and while our people were moving to and 
fro, the prisoner raised the back of the tent, unseen 
by the guard and others who were sitting near the 
entrance, crept to the outer lines of the camp, leaped 
on a horse which was staked near, and escaped under 
cover of the darkness. No more was heard of either 
horse or rider, though it was believed that some of 
the friends of the teamster had aided him in making 
his escape. 
September 26th. Our march to-day brought us to 
the Cibolo (corrupted by the Texans into Sea- Wis : 
low) River, where we encamped. 3 
September 27th. Took an early start, and vested 
the city of San Antonio at two o'clock, distant 
twenty-one miles. Having much to attend to in 
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