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MOUND BOOZE HOUSE

 

Shot down the bayou

And one sad soul laying dead

I sent word to save myself

And you sent for my head

Had you a message

But i forgot to rite it down

Well that suits me coz i can't read

On in the ground face down

 

Shots down the bayou

As i reach for my gun

I'a told you lonely man that your days are done

Listen to me here

I got no immediate plan

Well I'm liable to cut you neck

Coz this my home long loving land

 

I know that violence for

Too long has been my cure

I see they brought a... shot for me… yeah

 

Shot on down the bayou

I heard that sound before

Shot down on the bayou

I heard that sound before

Yeah i heard the sound before

June 5, 1927

Letter from M. Estelle Montgomery to W. E. B. Du Bois,

 

MISSISSIPPI: Booze Is Dead!

Monday, Nov. 20, 1939

"'TIME' Magazine"

 

"Bitter was the feud in the town of Mound Bayou, between Eugene P. Booze, Republican boss, and his sister-in-law Estelle Montgomery. Cause: both claimed ownership of the house in which Booze and his family lived." Estelle had been attempting to share in her father's fortune, but apparently had been disinherited.

Eugene Booze apparently won the argument last month: in an altercation over a court order forbidding her to enter the house, Estelle attacked Booze and two white State policemen with a butcher knife, was shot dead.

 

"By report, citizens of Mound Bayou were angry that Mr. Booze had called in state troopers to kill Estelle, and they in turn shot and killed Booze."

A letter from Estelle Montgomery to W. E. B. Dubois in which Ms. Montgomery explains the fear for her life and efforts of Mr. Booze to dispossess her. She even suspects that Isaiah T. Montgomery might have been poisoned by Mary, at the instructions of Booze.

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