"SOME THINGS THAT ARE OLD"..("MICLEE"S 21st CENTURY")
Some Things.......................... In This World................... Are So Old .............................."When We Were Kids?"........................................ (You Can Something In................If You Care To.................. From Here).(This Blog Is Rated "G"...General Audiences)
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"Could Mike Love Sing As Good As You?"
"Or Was That You In India...With The Beatles"
"Doing That Guru Stuff?!"...............................
"If It Was Up To Ole Bernie?"
"We'd All Be Living In Houses"
"Made Out Of Ticky Tacky"
"And They'd All Look Just The Same"
(I Had Thought That"........... "This Land?)
(Belong To The American Indians)......................
(For The Murders Of Sheriff Brady.... And His Deputy... George Hindman)
(And On April 1 1878?)....(Stood Before The Judge Who Had Declared Billy Guilty On All Counts)
"At The End Of The Trial?".........The Judge Glared At Billy.... And Pronounced The Sentence"
(With These Words)
"I Sentence You To Hang...Until You Are Dead.. Dead.. Dead!"
"And Billy Responded... By Saying Back To The Judge"
"And You?"..."Can Go To Hell.. Hell.. Hell!"................................
"Ole Billy Escaped From Prison .......Killing Two Guards In The Process"
"Pat Garret........... Once Again .........Went After Billy"
"And According To Mr Garrett?....."Billy Drew On Him...... And Garret Shot Him Dead"
(I Dont Believe This For One Minute)...................."Garret Ambushed Billy The Kid"
"For... On February 29...1908?"
"Pat Garret Was Shot Dead In The Back"
"SeemsTto Me..... That Pat Garret?"
"Was More Than Just........ A Law Man..... Indeed"....................
"Did (Billy The Kid)...Actually Pull This Off With Pat Garret?..(After All Now...They Were Really Good Friends)
It's questionable whether Garrett killed him or someone else.
One of the best pieces of evidence that Garrett didn't kill him is that it's known that wanted posters were put out on him at least a year and a half after his alleged death.
Also...
It was long rumored that Butch Cassidy & Sundance were not the ones killed by Federales in South America.
Awhile back it was determined to put the rumor to rest.
Their graves were opened, but only one set of skeletal remains was found.
DNA testing suggested the remains were of neither of them.
Butch's sister remained adamant well into the 20th Century that Butch returned from South America and lived out his life peacefully under an assumed identity.
In the movie, Etta Place parts company with them.
That was factual.
She then vanished from the annals of history.
According to one rumor she died of appendicitis shortly after the parting of the ways.
NEVER fight with older folks
Age & treachery will overcome youth & skill.
And never, Ever, EVER mess with li'l ol' ladies
You are dealing with a force you cannot comprehend
That vid (an aud, actually) HAS to be the most hilarious 3 minutes on the 'net.
I dare you not to laugh. Hell! I DOUBLE dare ya!
he was born in the 1800s
that's how old I am.
"Could Mike Love Sing As Good As You?"
Mike sings a helluva lot BETTER'n I.
So he doubled for me back in the day doing the singing.
And some of the other stuff too, as I recall.
Ole Ed Maxwell Wasnt Granted An Appeal?"................
(Or Did They Not Have Appeals Back Then?)
"Not Sure What Youre Saying"
Could You Please Expand On What You Mean?"..............
" And Head Gear?"..."No One Knew Who Was Who"...(And Yes...Despite What History Teaches?")......(We Had Cameras Then)
"I Think It Was A Political Fight"
"With Those Two Old Ladies"
"It Looked Like The Democrat Was Winning!"
"I Just Couldnt Resist This One!"
"It Was Of Old Age"
"Imagine The Stuff That He Saw!".......................
Things went poorly for Ed, awright...
Trial interrupted by a neck-tie party.
No appeal.
No final resting place. He got 'misplaced' after dancing on air with the reaper
"You Say This Happened In 1881 ...When Our Bad Guy Was Hung Minutes Within Conviction"
"Up Until Tet Time Of 1789.... The Founding Fathers Had Created A System Of Federal Appelate Courts"
"But This System Really Was Not Acted Upon........... Until 1889"
(So..In Theory And Law?......Ole Ed Maxwell?"...Was Hung Illegally"
"And..In Oklahoma Territory In 1889?"....Ole Clint Eastwood Was Hung Illegally By 9 Men
"In The Movie............ "Hang Em High"
"Ole Bruce Dern... in The Movie..... Was Hung Also"
"Without The Right Of Appeal"......For The Right To Appeal Was In Force In That Year Of 1889"
"Poor Ed Maxwell".....He Was Just 8 Years Of Possibly"
"Living A Litte Bit Longer".....................................................
There was NO conviction because there was NO trial.
Ed made his first appearance in court to be charged with killing the Pepin County Sheriff & his brother, a Dunn County lawman.
A large crowd had gathered in the courtroom. Ed supposedly made a remark that infuriated the crowd/mob. On a prearranged signal, he was seized by a group of men, noosed, dragged from the proceedings & swung into the air from an oak tree in the courthouse yard.
It was an "extra-legal execution", more commonly referred to as a Lynching.
After killing the Wisconsin lawmen, Ed & brother Lon Maxwell had made good their escape. Hall County, Nebraska lawmen caught up with them some weeks later.
Lon again escaped and remains at large - whereabouts unknown.
Ed was returned to Pepin County for trial.
During the train trip to Wisconsin he made the statement, "I'll never leave Durand alive."
His assessment of his situation proved accurate.
I just discovered another coincidence.
Ed was born in 1852 - one hundred years before I was born. Weird.
Charles & Milton Coleman were the lawmen brothers killed in a gunfight with the Maxwell brothers. They were the first Wisconsin lawmen killed in the line of duty.
Ed Maxwell was the last (most recent?) person lynched in Wisconsin.
Ed and Alonzo Maxwell, however, have been lost in history compared to their counterparts.
They killed Charles Coleman of Durand and his brother, Milton Coleman of Menomonie, Wis., on July 10, 1881, in a blaze of gunfire along the Eau Claire Road. The location, at the northeast end of the city of Durand, is near the present intersection of Highway 10 and state Highways 25 and 85.
Subsequently, Ed Maxwell was lynched on Nov. 19, 1881, from a tree on the courthouse lawn in downtown Durand."
According to the coroner's report, he "...died of injuries sustained when he fell down the courthouse steps."
1881 - Ed stretched hemp at an extra-legal execution.
A hundred years to the day later, I got a life sentence - marriage - in the same courtroom.
It was life sentence for wife anyway
Our wedding took place immediately following a drunk driving trial.
After marrying us, the judge gave us a wedding present - a six pack of Old Milwaukee Beer that had been evidence in the preceding trial...
"We Just Might Have Someone That Old"
"Here...On The Blogs"
(That Mr Meth Guy)
"Read His Comment On This Blog"..........................
"One Must Believe That What Youve Said Here Is True"
"There Is No Way That"
"Someone Could Make All Of That Stuff Up"..........................
"And Died On June 7 1866"
"He Was A... "Suquamish And Duwamish Chief"
"He Pursued A Peaceful Accomodation Approach"
"When It Came To The White Settlers Moving Into His Land"
"And Though This Land He Was Chief Of....... Was Taken From Him.... And His Tribe?"
"A Major City Was Named For Him In His Honor".......................
"They Honor An Indian Chief................ By Naming A Major City After Him"
"There Are Statues Of This Chief"
"Yet...As Of June of This Year?"
"The Federal Government Will Not Give"
"Recognition To His Tribe"........................
A native man on a white horse in full dress would pray; "Our Father"
It was so very beautiful and I wished it would still be there today
"Maybe We Should Ask"
"Mr Ed?"........................