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Jack McGuire

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They would have lynched me         Had I not been secretly hurried away         To the jail at Peoria.         And yet I was going peacefully home,         Carrying my jug, a little drunk,         When Logan, the marshal, halted me         Called me a drunken hound and shook me         And, when I cursed him for it, struck me         With 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 land         Old Thomas Rhodes for wrecking the bank,         And the judge was a friend of         Rhodes And wanted him to escape,         And Kinsey offered to quit on         Rhodes For fourteen years for me.         And the bargain was made.         I served my time         And learned to read and write.

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