On Grassy Mountain

High in the backwoods 14 miles from the Tennessee River opposite Guntersville, Ala. lived 75-year-old Grandma Georgia LeMaster, a shrunken little woman writh a thin, still face and hands like corded leather. Mrs. LeMaster set great store by her grandson's shepherd dog, a big black mongrel named Nero. One day last week, Nero was disporting himself on the public highway. Along came Houston Sims, driving over Grassy Mountain in his car. There was a yelp, and when Mrs. LeMaster got to the road, Nero was dying in the dust.

Soon Sims's Brother Gordon turned up to talk it over. Out ran Grandma LeMaster & kin. Gordon Sims's father heard his son yell, got there to find him knifed and bleeding to death on the ground. As the elder Sims bent over his son's body he was stabbed. He seized a .22 rifle and blazed away, pointblank. Mrs. LeMaster's son-in-law fell wounded. Somehow the daughter was stabbed in the breast. When the officers came, they arrested Mrs. LeMaster for the murder of Gordon Sims.

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