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- Murdered by Theo Bulter around 1918 (see RIN)
https://books.google.com/books?id=dprJCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT177&lpg=PT177&dq=butler+allegedly+shot+and+killed+charles+coleman&source=bl&ots=H0rzESClpT&sig=ACfU3U3xqaJcGgFoLP8GbIG3_60Wg83Qlw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBosWMqvnjAhUGmeAKHQljCo4Q6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=butler%20allegedly%20shot%20and%20killed%20charles%20coleman&f=false
Participant in Daileyville Masacre (subject of a 20 mule team Baraxo episode, hosted by Ronald Reagan)
Page 17 Charles Coleman says: I was working for William Butler when the difficulty at Daileyville occurred on the 6th day of September 1886. I had been working for him for several months. I stayed with Mr. Jack Pullin the night before the difficulty and joined the hands of Mr. Butler near the house of Mr. Butler the next morning. We went to Newton Butler's house (the witness stated substantially the facts testified to by John Trimble until they got to Daileyville). I was about 6 or 7 steps from the gate walking toward some men in front of the store when the first shot was fired. I had seen Garza and Coy ride up and dismount and hitch their horses, draw their guns from their scabbards and walk up to the rear of the hack. Also I saw Jack Bailey walk up to where Newton Butler was. I saw Fate Elder walking out toward the Mexicans. When he was about 15 steps from the Mexicans he pulled his pistol around from his left side to the front and with his right hand he drew the pistol from the scabbard. All the time he was walking toward the Mexicans. I saw him bring his pistol over and point it toward the Mexicans. By that time he was pretty close to them and as he pointed it I heard a shot. I thought Elder fired it. I was not looking at the Mexicans when the shot was fired. At the time Elder drew his pistol, the Mexicans had their guns down. I never looked at them anymore until the gun fired, I was looking at Elder. At the first shot I turned and as I turned I heard another shot. I then ran toward the gate and as I got to the gate I turned my head and saw Elder falling and the two Mexicans was within some 6 feet of him. At the first shot, I noticed Newton Butler run, or move westward. Jack Bailey ran toward the gate. I passed in the gate just as Henry Pullin fell and just after Hiram Pullin had passed in. I stepped behind a live oak tree just inside the gate and to the right of the gate. Felix Burris passed in ahead of me and I saw him go behind the store. No one passed in the gate after I did except Jack Bailey. I was standing with my head at the tree when he passed in and I turned my back to it. As he ran by me I watched him and saw him turn to the right and go some 6 or 7 steps and fall. He fell with his feet toward the left and his head eastward. His feet pointed more to the store than to me. Bailey hollered: "Don't shoot me, don't shoot me." He said something else which I do not remember as he fell. I looked to see if anyone was shooting at him and no one was shooting at him that I could see. I could see no one in the yard at all. I saw, just outside of the fence and some 6 steps up the fence from where I was, the two Mexicans. They were looking over the fence where Bailey was. Juan Coy was close to the fence and Epitacio was a little back. They had their guns in their hands but did not have them in a shooting position. They were simply looking over the fence at Bailey. They were about the same distance from Bailey that I was. I know they neither shot nor made any attempt to shoot Bailey after Bailey fell. When Bailey was hollering "Don't shoot me" he was lying on his back. I did not see him looking at anyone. His face was turned up. I did not see Dan Butler in the yard and I know he was nowhere near Bailey at the time he was hollering. If he had been, I would have seen him. After the firing ceased the Mexicans walked over to where Elder fell and soon after left. I did not go to Daileyville to fight that day. I know of no agreement by anyone to fight that day. If I had thought to a fight I would not have gone there. I had not seen the Mexicans for several months before that day.I had not seen Coy since he killed the negro in Wilson County and had not seen Garcia since just after his case was dismissed in Floresville.
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1866 - 1918 (52 years)