Word: swears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning a farmer, setting out early to gather fodder, found Fugate sprawled in a bed of bloody snow, still alive. At the hospital, Fugate, his armbone shattered, raised his right forefinger to swear to the identity of six of his assailants. The six, all kinsmen of murdered Lawyer Watkins, voluntarily surrendered. Only then did the lynched man die, making murderers of indiscreet lynchers who had broken Lynching Rule No. 1: "Do not leave your man until you are absolutely sure he is finished...
...swear on my honor...