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ana saw several Mexican* on root crying to rope my mule. I spurred my horse, running through gardens and ileitis, and plunged into the river.1 soon dashed in among them with a ‘pepper-box revolver.’ The Mexicans drew their butcherknives. As one of them ran at me I shot him in the breast and be fell to the ground. The others out at me, but my horse would jump out of their reach. Just as 1 was drawing trigger at another of the thieves they M ran off, and I pursued, wounding two of J.J them. ’TMany such daring deeds and narrow | escapes from desperadoes and wild Indians are chronicled in his thrilling book. Even after Mr. Potter became a preacher of the gospel he was forced to tight for his life. On one occasion while preaching to a boisterous crowd of gamblers and desperadoes on lb© frontier of Texas Mr, Potter saw that he would be compelled to retreat from his pulpit and leave ins hilarious audience to hold high carnival on the temporarily consecrated spot or take the law into his own hands and demand respect for the gospel he preached. He resolved on the latter course, and deliberately laid a pair of revolvers oil his temporary book-board and informed his audience that ho proposed to finish his discourse, and that any further disturbance would be resented promptly. The positive manner in which this announcement was made, backed by Mr. Potter’s record, quelled the trouble, and he says that be never had more attentive hearers as he finished his sermon. Mr. Potter served as chaplain of Debrey's regiment In the Confederate army, and many are his deeds of valor and kindness well remembered by his comrades, mauy of whom still survive and live in this state.After the war be returned to his mission work on the frontier of Texas. All who were with Mr, Potter on the border of civilization sit that time remember well the savage warwhoop of the redmon trh ilo m unr fol I iMnfimia f a Uiati*
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Fort Worth Weekly Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 03, 1890
Page 12
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