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Re: 150 Years Ago Today...Sunday, August 12, 1860

Got the name wrong...double-checked the article...it was a outlaw named Ferdinand McCaskell, and the Deputy Marshall was named D. W. Austen. McCaskell on Feb. 16, 1858, in Warrington, "murdered an old man named George Young, the keeper of a ten-pin alley" (a bowling alley in Warrington) "deliberately discharged both barrels into his breast" (from his double-barreled shotgun). In July of 1860, Austen tracked him to Texas, and had to shoot him with a deringer pistol to capture him. McCaskell came from a very good family in Escambia, County.

David

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