Epilogue
James McDaniel and Lewis Potter were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Deputy Sheriff W. L. Jerrell and on federal charges of robbing the United States mail. While awaiting transfer from the Bexar County jail in San Antonio to the Federal penitentiary in Chester, Illinois, McDaniel broke jail. He made good his escape and traveled to the area around Boerne, Texas. There he was discovered at a goat camp about eight miles from Boerne by Kendall County Deputy Sheriffs James Van Rippen and Ed Stevens, Jr. McDaniel violently resisted arrest and was shot and killed by the two officers.
Six days after McDaniel was killed, Potter was taken from San Antonio by two deputy United States marshals, to begin his prison sentence in Illinois.