The Pistoleer: A Novel of John Wesley Hardin

THE PISTOLEER IN EL PASO

By the Governor of the State of Texas

To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come:

Whereas, at the spring term, A.D. 1878 in the district court of Comanche County, State of Texas, John Wesley Hardin was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty-five years; concurrent with which sentence is a sentence for two years in the district court of DeWitt County, Texas, January 1, 1892, for manslaughter, and

Whereas, For the reason that he has served out his term of sentence and was discharged from the penitentiary on the 17th day of February, 1894, that good citizens ask it;

Now therefore, I, J. S. Hogg, Governor of Texas, do by virtue of the authority vested in me by the constitution and laws of this State, hereby, for the reasons specified, now on file in the office of the Secretary of State, do grant to said convict, John Wesley Hardin, full pardon in both cases and restore him to full citizenship and the right of suffrage.

In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name and caused the seal of the State to be affixed at the city of Austin, this 16th day of March, A.D.1894.

J. S. HOGG, Governor

GEO. W. SMITH, Secretary of State.

The Life of John Wesley Hardin as Written by Himself

“Readers, you see what drink and passion will do. If you wish to be successful in life, be temperate and control your passions; if you don’t, ruin and death is the inevitable result.”