Author : American Legion National Headquarters
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780243406227
Book Description
Excerpt from The American Legion Monthly, Vol. 5: July, 1928 The captured man, sober, made no defense, admitting every thing and asking no clemency. He proved a model prisoner. No complaints, no requests, no annoy auces. Mum John, the jailer dubbed him. He ate, slept, kept his cell clean. In going to the white man's college, he had separated from his people. He was single; no relatives came to see him; he asked to see no one. N 0 mail was sent him. He wrote no letters. The sentence made a stir.in Branding Iron, and beyond. Throughout Yucca and neighboring counties, out into the border States and farther, waxed and spread this singular topic for comment and conjecture. It engaged men in ranch, street and office; enlivened church socials and sewing circles. What would a woman sherifi do with a hanging on her hands? What was the sheriff of Yucca going to do in the circumstances? To Mrs. Bayne, thinking it out, opinion and advice poured in from many sources. Women called singly, in pairs and in groups to offer sympathy and suggestion, nursing their curiosity. Telephone calls, letters from various parts of the county and from outside - some containing resolutions adopted by societies of one kind or another - the glances of acquaintances as she walked about the town, the turning of heads to gaze at her when she passed strangers, all spoke the state of the public mind. A hanging was in itself nothing so very unusual in Branding Iron, Abner Bayne having personally con ducted several in his long service as sheriff before his marriage; but the coming one was attended by rare accompaniments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.