Jack McGuire
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hey would have lynched meHad I not been secretly hurried awayTo the jail at Peoria.And yet I was going peacefully home,Carrying my jug, a little drunk,When Logan, the marshal, halted meCalled me a drunken hound and shook meAnd, when I cursed him for it, struck meWith that Prohibition loaded cane—All this before I shot him.They would have hanged me except for this:My lawyer, Kinsey Keene, was helping to landOld Thomas Rhodes for wrecking the bank,And the judge was a friend ofRhodes And wanted him to escape,And Kinsey offered to quit on RhodesFor fourteen years for me.And the bargain was made.I served my timeAnd learned to read and write.
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