Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the Norman invasion, the Mayor was known as the Portreeve (porta, Latin for gate; reeve, Saxon for chief magistrate of town; of, shirereeve, contracted to sheriff). So strong was the City at this time that the Great Conqueror placed special value on securing its voluntary sanction to his kingship...
...morning during the trial of several men accused of killing Skelcher's father, a Klansman testified that he did not believe the accused were guilty, and the case was dismissed. Later the same day, the Sheriff and two deputies walked into the J. H. Smith Garage, said to be Klan headquarters, to seize a car said to have been used in the attack on Skelcher. Dewey Newbolt, a Klansman, was sitting within, four guns strapped to his waist. Everybody opened fire. Before the firing was over, six were dead and five wounded. More troops...
John Smith, owner of the garage, later swore out warrants and had the sheriff and two of his surviving deputies arrested charged with causing the fight, thirty-two other warrants for murder were also sworn...
...Sheriff later apprehended two Negroes suspected of causing the double death. They were conveyed to jail in the adjoining town of Mound City. Slowly a grumbling mob assembled. A storm-cloud of violence hovered over the scene. Then a man came forward from the crowd. He pleaded with them not to resort to violence. He prayed with them. There was no lynching that...
...general battle of fisticuffs, quelled by a sheriff...