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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 2257. HUGH REED'S STATEMENT
Laredo 6th Decer. 1846 I do hereby certify that I made for Lieut. Thos. l\I. Likins, a Desk for the use of his office out of the public plank belonging to the Steamer l\Iajor Brown; the same being done by order & COI\Sent of Capt. Ster- ling. I placed upon the desk, a Lock belonging to myself which I valued highly and for which I have refused $2.25 cts.- On delivering the desk to Lieut. Likens, he slipped fifty cents into my hand as pay- ment for said lock; which I did not resent at the time; but took an occasion subsequently to express my dissatisfaction at the conduct. When Lieut. Likins was called upon by order of Capt. Lamar for the key, he then offered me an additional dollar and fifty cents; claimed the desk as private property, and requested me to state that he had paid me for the same. This I refused to do; and told him that I would prefer to return him his money and take back my lock. On be- ing further importuned to say for him that he had paid me for the desk, I told him that I should say n.othing about the matter at all, unless called upon; and if called upon, then I would not tell a lie for him. He asked me at the same time to say that I had received pay- ment for a feed-trough which I had also made him out of the public plank, and which he was claiming as private property.- Having never recd pay from him, I replied to him as I Had done before that I would not tell a lie for him. Attest l\IARK STERLING HUGH REED Carpenter of the Major Brown U S Capt l\Iark Sterling No. 2258. WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS'S STATEMENT [Laredo, Texas, December 6? 1846] Having been called on to state what I know with regard to Lieut. Thos. M. Likens' habitual gambling I say that I have been intimately acquainted with his manner of life Since the Organization of Captain Lamar's Company, particularly Since its arrival at this place. I can therefore certify that to my own knowledge scarcely a day or night has pass'd without his having play'd cards for money, with some of the privates of the company; that the Quarter )laster's office was the general resort, particularly at night, for all those who were in the habit of gaming; that he played Cards almost every night untill a late hour, losing considerable sums at times which he payed, as I believed out of public funds. In betting he was generally unsuccessful and my impression is that he lost much more than he won. I have often heard him declare that his private funds were exhausted yet on the same day I have seen him loose money at cards. I have known him to win a shirt from one of the privates of the Company and exact its payment. WM H. WILLIAMS 3. Corporal Lorado Guards [Endorsed:] W. H. Williams Certificate
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