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•r—' —5*W-—-Braftvh S ■ a^O. •• - illi.I Haasch ni2t with a harrowing ex-| perienc* that .'he hones never to go j through again. Soon after her her husband left the house to g*| to town, she noticed “Shelly.''* a I negro that lived up, the road, turn jir.to their lane. He went4* around the barn as he had done at other, times, and Mrs. Raasch thought-* nothing of it, tut when “he came \ toward the. house she took the gun and went upstairs, never thinking the negro would come any further i fhcir. the door. but. he came inside j.ar.d walked through the rooms and : then started upstairs. There is a [turn in the-s^airs and when he-got.. there she said, “All right. Shelly, jTve got you,'.', sr.d leveled the gun in—tom:—She—rrfd—him—bo walk-downstairs and go outside and turn his pockets wrong side out, which he diet and out fell an iron rod about a foot long. “Now,** said Mrs. • P^aaseh. “you ge* out of this yard ufT^-nrfeurroar’ ~vnforim~ lately. Mrs Raasch didn't have ,a s sheil-tn-th? Rtin or *h(» would have , shot him The ; negro left the country. That certainly was a close call for Mrs. Raasch. but the gun is kept loaded now, for 'once was-- - - t n____j'__i il_ 1
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Eagle Lake Headlight
Eagle Lake, Texas, US
Sat, Jan 07, 1933
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TX, USA 09 May 2017
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