Word: galena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Single Jeopardy. In Galena, Alaska, William Pete, 37, overjoyed at his acquittal on wife-beating charges, rushed over to thank the jury, burbled: "I promise never to beat her again...
Horrified and dismayed by the notoriety that clung to Billy even in death, members of his family hired a lawyer, threatened the undertaker with legal action, and demanded that he deliver the body to them in Galena, Kans. Boydstun, who had begun getting black looks from people in Comanche, hastened to oblige. He laid three dozen celluloid roses on Billy's chest, put a plastic boutonniere in his lapel, loaded the coffin into his hearse and took it to them. That night a handful of Billy's kin took him quietly to a rural cemetery at Lone...