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Lynchfrom 1aof human lives” caused by drug laws.Lynch had said that he felt that if he went to jail !,fchey won’t let me out again.” Another man, Bob Herndon, had been on the island early in the morning to talk to Lynch and asked him to give himself up, but Lynch refused.Officers had decided not to move in on Lynch for fear of gunfire. Lynch was armed with a loaded. 20-gauge shotgun arid had vowed yesterday to die rather than go to prison for possession of marijuana.The alligator, farm is located just a dozen yards or so from Texas Highway 35 and the scene of many police cars and news of Lynch’s holdout'drew clusters of cars and spectators who gathered along the roadside. A few young people hollered to Lynch not to give up and Lynch hollered in return, “Eight on.” The farm has perhaps more than 100 alligators! about half of them adult size but the rest of them tiny reptiles. When not keeping watch on Lynch, who stayed huddled down amidst the 3 or 4 palm trees most of the time, newsmen and sheriff’s deputies wandered around Lynch’s tanks looking at the alligators. a
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Fri, Feb 06, 1976
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