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EGAN ‘FAILURE’Sheriff W, F, (Billy) Egan, probably best known for befriending Sam Bass, the bpjvfmd chasing Sam Bass, the mill my i threw a wrench in organizjng The State tia here during Recpustrngjioh,” Egan was ordered. Ip .jjj’fjaniije the miiiija by ^efon§ij*i|ci|on Gpy. E, J. Davis, ; On the day se{ in fcfay. gf 18?L all able-bodied lnerj \yefe to enroll for the militia herg'''BRANK/fOmiliT The town was soon full of pen. They started fofrpmg companies, enrolling, • electing vq([icer§ ~ and drinking. They drank.Tqijst and announced loudly there wefe plenty .of men for frontier protection but mighty few for .protection of the' reconstruction governor.femg from one company to an- lt;other.Scratch my name off Company lt;A and put it on Company C,” * plje would shout. Another would ( jntipjble, 'Tin in E put me in S/! • tNO^ilLlHA 5Sppn the sheriff's list was blotch- t e4J uninteljible pieces of paper and i {lie enrolljiient a complele failure, ( The shgfttf turned, to his marc t palatable'duty of taking care ot 1 the drunks',.He filled the jail and i herded \))z leftovers together, as 1 prisoners.HUGE SUCCESSed drunk. The men began frans-'Egan, .'^orn On Jan. ll. 1034, in Kentiinky.camu to Denton In 1853. in tqe Civil War he was first sergeant of Company A, 29th Texas An out noon the whole town seem- Cavglry. ' .
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Denton Record Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 03, 1957
Page 13
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