"BUTHEAD" WILSON

(I do not yet find this story in the file and lost it is lost will tell as I recall the story Mr. Williams told him. Sheriff Wilson was not one of the popular sheriffs. He was a Union veteran, not calculated to make him a popular in the Reconstruction days, and he wore a big Union woolen blue Army overcoat. There was an Irishman who worked for Grandma Pierson on her ranch on the river. On a Saturday afternoon he came to Jonesboro, a much more important town then than Hamilton and went to a saloon and got loaded. When Sheriff Buthead Wilson came in, the Irishman drew his pistol, and in the old time way shot at the sheriff’s feet and made him dance on the saloon floor. Next morning the Irishman was found shot to death, in a nearby thicket. There was a stream of blue woolen thread hanging on a briar Nothing done a drunken Irishman more or less.