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Our Singing Country
9 His wife had gone to another car, she heard the horrible sound; She cried aloud, "They've killed him! I heard the pistol fire!" The death of these two men had caused trouble in our land, Caused men to leave their families and take the parting hand.
io They shot and killed the deputy sheriff, Bumgartner was his name, They shot him from the bushes with cool deliberate aim. The death of him was horrible, 'twill never be forgot; His body was torn and bleeding with forty-four buckshot.
ill composed this as a warning, so now beware, young men, Your pistols will bring you trouble, on this you may depend. For in the bottom of a whisky glass a lurking demon dwells, 'Twill burn the breath of those who drink and send their souls to hell
HARVEY LOGAN
d. No. 1548. Jimmie Morris, Hazard, Ky., 1937.
"Billy the Kid was to have had his neck stretched today. But since he has taken French leave from the Lincoln County jail} the matter has been indefinitely fostfoned"
—Las Cruces, New Mexico, Gazette} May 13, 1881.