I DONT KNOW THAT law enfort bes all that much from eology.
Tools that es into our hands es into theirs too. Not that you go back. Or that youd even want to. We used to have them old Motorola two way radios. Weve had the high-band now for several years. Some things aint ged. on sense aint ged. Ill tell my deputies sometimes to just follow the breadcrumbs. I still like the old Colts. .44-40. If that wont stop him youd better throw the thing down and take off runnin. I like the old Wier model 97. I like it that its got a hammer. I dont like havin to hunt the safety on a gun. Of course some things is worse. That cruiser of mine is seven years old. Its got the 454 in it. You t get that engine no more. I drove one of the new ones. It wouldnt outrun a fatman. I told the man I thought Id stick with what I had. That aint always a good policy. But it aint always a bad oher.
This other thing I dont know. People will ask me about it ever so often. I t say as I would rule it out altogether. It aint somethin I would like to have to see again. To witness. The ohat really ought to be oh row will never make it. I believe that.
You remember certain things about a thing like that. People didnt know what to wear.
There was one or two e dressed in black, which I suppose was all right. Some of the men e just in their shirtsleeves and that kindly bothered me. I aint sure I could tell you why.
Still they seemed to know what to do and that surprised me. Most of em I know had never been to a execution before. When it was over they pulled this curtain around the gas-chamber with him in there settin slumped over and people just got up and filed out.
Like out of church or somethin. It just seemed peculiar. Well it eculiar. Id have to say it robably the most unusual day I ever spent.
Quite a few people didnt believe in it. Evehat worked on the row. Youd be surprised. Some of em I think had at oime. You see somebody ever day sometimes for years and then one day you walk that man down the hallut him to death.
Well. Thatll take some of the cackle out of just about anybody. I dont care who it is.
And of course some of them boys was not very bright. Chaplain Pickett told me about one he ministered to ae his last meal and hed ordered this dessert, ever what it was. And it e time to go and Pickett he asked him didnt he want his dessert and the old boy told him he was savin it for when he e back. I dont know what to say about that. Pickett didher.
I never had to kill nobody and I am very glad of that fact. Some of the old time sheriffs wouldnt even carry a firearm. A lot of folks find that hard to believe but its a fact. Jim Scarbh never carried ohats the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldnt wear one. Up in anche ty. I always liked to hear about the old timers. Never missed a ce to do so. The old time that the sheriffs had for their people is been watered down some. You t help but feel it. Nigger Hoskins over in Bastrop ty knowed everbodys phone number in the whole ty by heart.
Its a odd thing when you e to think about it. The opportunities for abuse are just about everwhere. Theres no requirements iexas State stitution for bein a sheriff. Not a ohere is no such thing as a ty law. You think about a job where you have pretty much the same authority as God and there is no requirements put upon you and you are charged with preservin ent laws and you tell me if thats peculiar