Part 8

Part 8, Note 25

Colorado County District Court Records, Criminal Cause File No. 859: State of Texas v. Camillus Jones, Criminal Cause File No. 1000: State of Texas v. Camillus Jones, Criminal Cause File No. 1001: State of Texas v. Camillus Jones, Criminal Cause File No. 1003: State of Texas v. Camillus Jones, Minute Book D, p. 372, Minute Book E, pp. 111, 380, 381; Livingston Lindsay to Edmund J. Davis, April 9, 1871, John C. Miller to Edmund J. Davis, March 27, 1872, George S. Ziegler to Edmund J. Davis, March 28, 1872, George S. Ziegler, et al. to Edmund J. Davis, March 28, 1872, John C. Miller to Edmund J. Davis, March 29, 1872, John C. Miller to Edmund J. Davis, April 4, 1872, Livingston Lindsay to Edmund J. Davis, April 15, 1872, John C. Miller, et al. to Edmund J. Davis, April 29, 1872, Edmund J. Davis Records (RG 301), Archives Division, Texas State Library; City Officials Appointment Book, City of Columbus, p. 36, Colorado County Election Returns, Secretary of State Records (RG 307), Archives Division, Texas State Library; Colorado Citizen, October 12, 1871. Jones had moved to the state of Colorado by 1874 (see Colorado Citizen, October 8, 1874). Perhaps Jones never filed his bond because he had second thoughts about working under the Columbus mayor, John C. Miller. In late 1871, probably still fuming over his forced resignation as presiding justice, he characterized Miller as "one of the most worthless men in this comunity besides being an ignorant ass he is a drunken imbecile without the dignity sense or anything else that would create respect in others." For good measure, he added a few words about the city marshal, Joseph P. Harris, calling him "a much worse man" than Miller, and declaring that "there is nothing in the catalogue of crime that he could not be induced to do." Patient readers will encounter Harris again later (see Camillus Jones to Edmund J. Davis, December 13, 1871, Edmund J. Davis Records (RG 301), Archives Division, Texas State Library).