Rabu, 01 Maret 2017

Desperado Billy Martin Grew Desperate Indeed When Sentenced to the Gallows

Thanks to his sweetheart, the sheriff’s niece, he strolled out of jail. In September 1881, after 21-year-old fugitive William Franklin Martin was captured in Tennessee and returned to Missouri to face a murder charge, the startling story of his escape with the help of the Laclede County sheriff’s 16-year-old niece, and the love-struck pair’s hasty …

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