Word: hatchers
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...started Sunday night, when Sheriff George C. Hatcher was waked by a Negro. He was bleeding across the chest. "Picky Pie Hill done did me over at the New Harlem Club in Mclntyre," he said. The sheriff jumped into his car and headed for the tin-roofed Negro juke joint four miles away...
...glared through the smoky, crowded room. Caleb ("Picky Pie") Hill, a husky, 28-year-old Negro, was drunk, but the sheriff got handcuffs on him, and began to question witnesses. Suddenly, the sheriff felt his pistol pulled from the holster, turned to find Picky Pie aiming at his head. Hatcher ducked and the bullet went into the ceiling. In the scuffle, the sheriff's pistol got lost. The sheriff took his prisoner back to town and put him in a cell with another Negro in the jail on the second floor of the sheriff's house. Then...
...front door was open-"if I lock it the lock sticks," explained the sheriff. The men calmly picked up the keys and went upstairs to the cell. "Come on, Picky Pie, let's go," one said. Without a protest, Picky Pie walked out with them. Mrs. Hatcher, asleep downstairs, heard no commotion...
...President James Monroe Smith, a Long man, was sentenced to from eight to 24 years in prison for embezzlement. L.S.U.'s last president, William ("The Conqueror") Hatcher retired on grounds of health after a series of administration-faculty disagreements...
...Confederate veteran (capably hammed by Roland Culver) is deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...