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.
Letter from M. Estelle Montgomery to W. E. B. Du Bois, June 5, 1927 All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Letter from M. Estelle Montgomery to W. E. B. Du Bois, June 5, 1927 All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
"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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