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Bully Boys. Success, however, went to Hogjaw's head. Only a year and a half later he got drunk, threatened some Negroes with a shotgun, resisted arrest and was sent back to the prison farm. He was not particularly dismayed; he was made keeper of the prison bloodhounds, was well fed, and was allowed to go off on criminal tracking jaunts when law officers asked for use of the dogs...
Last month, things broke Hogjaw's way. His opportunity began with a simple bit of Negro baiting at a sharecropper's cabin near the town of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291) in central Mississippi. Three drunken bully boys-an ex-convict and moonshiner named Leon Turner and two brothers, Malcolm and Wendell Whitt-broke into the cabin of a Negro named Thomas Harris. They attempted to rape his wife, stole household effects and terrorized his family. A few days later, after the Negro's neighbors complained, the trio was arrested and held for trial...
...trio, Malcolm Whitt, gave himself up when the liquor ran out. The other two hid out. A sheriff's posse was organized to track them down-and the peerless Hogjaw and his hounds were requisitioned from the prison farm. Hogjaw turned up, burly and cocky, in a bright red shirt and striped pants. He belted on a pistol and holster, and at rainy daybreak put three dogs, High Rollin' Red, Nigger and Alabama, on the trail...
Come Out? An hour and a half later, the bloodhounds set up a great bass clamor outside a potato shack on the farm of ex-Moonshiner Turner's father. Hogjaw, who likes to boast that he can outrun a horse, was right with the dogs, but the main body of cops all saw fit to maintain a respectful distance and await eventualities. Hogjaw pulled his gun, fired six shots into the shack and bravely bawled: "Come out, you sons of bitches...
...While Hogjaw posed proudly, cigarette dangling from his lips, deputies rushed up to arrest the killers and photographers to record the stirring scene. Said Hogjaw, with an old con's bland and innocent eye: "I did it because I want to be something more than just a number at Parchman." There was no guarantee that he would be released because of his big feat, but there would probably be.more opportunities and it seemed only a question of time. Hogjaw, who had also shot (but only wounded) another fleeing prisoner last August, was obviously the type of man that some...