Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1885 — Where They Found Him. [ARTICLE]

Where They Found Him.

Judge is one of those Texas lawyers who spend most of their time in saloons talking politics, or sitting in the District Court room of Austin, spitting tobacco-juice at the stove. Last week he was missing. His friends became alarmed. He was searched for all over town, but in vain. There was some talk of dragging the Colorado Eiver, but it was not carried out, owing, perhaps, to Platt’s well-known aversion to water. “Have you looked through all the saloons ?” asked one of Platt's friends of a crowd of searchers. “Yes, we have been in every one of them.” “Been to all the hotels?” “To every one of them. ” “Have you been to his office ?” It had actually never occurred to any of them to look for the Judge at his office. That was the last place where they expected to find him. He was found, strange to say, in his office, dead —drunk.— Texas Siftings.