Word: sheriff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daybreak Sheriff H. C. Hinton and a posse of eight with bloodhounds started looking for Negro Wilder McGowan, 24. A crowd of Wiggins men watched them start. Toward noon, while Sheriff Hinton and his men were looking for McGowan at the Ten-Mile sawmill where he used to work, the Wiggins town siren sounded. Sheriff Hinton knew what that meant. The mob had found McGowan sleeping under a truck at his grandmother's house. Afterold Mrs. N identified him, they just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn his body...
...calibre target pistol, he returned to school muttering threats and waving his gun. Schoolteacher Mitchell made no effort to stop the rush for the door, was glad when all his charges were safely out. prudently retreated himself. Chris, found some hours later at his home by the sheriff, surrendered his gun, which he said had not been loaded...
...Mars semiweekly Globe-Post, who tried to get a picture of 91-year-old Mrs. Trow on Election Day, were refused. When they returned with policemen and broke into the house, they found Mrs. Knox ill in bed, no trace of her mother. Mrs. Knox told the sheriff that her mother was on a trip, that she had hired a woman to impersonate her. She had been collecting her mother's $40 monthly Civil War pension. Pressed, Mrs. Knox said Mrs. Trow had gone to Nebraska with a friend named Ed Roach...
Amherst villagers declared last week that Sandford, now a bearded prophet of 76, was to be seen of moonlit nights near the cult's farm. Neither Dean Neidlinger, however, nor a sheriff, nor newshawks who visited the farm saw him. Heavenly Gates declared: "I have found the peace I have been looking for." Dean Neidlinger, satisfied there was "no monkey business" about Gates's trip to the farm, departed announcing that Gates was still free to return to Dartmouth. At length, after four days of wrestling with what by week's end had become the most publicized...
...Sheriff C. G. Bell identified the dead as Willie Wynn, Harlan County election official, Sherman Howard and Odell Sizemore...