JY>>>>>>>> lawn one day as "a warning to
others";  His 22YO daughter
 JY>>>>>>>> came out of the office like she was
shot from a cannon and
 JY>>>>>>>> quickly determined which way the wind
was blowing...
 RY>>>>>>> Like a cannon? like a hound on the scnt...
 RY>>>>>>> It's a myth that Louisa was urban..
 JY>>>>>> But Marta was wearing shoes when she ran from
the sheriff's
 JY>>>>>> office to the bonfire, wasn't she?
 RY>>>>> Only because it was required due to the condition of the
 RY>>>>> gravel in the street..
 JY>>>>>> I thought it especially neat that the sheriff
waited until
 JY>>>>>> there was a West wind and the smoke all blew
across the river
 JY>>>>>> into Fort Gay, WV. The town was stoned for a week..
 RY>>>>> How could you tell it was any different ?
 RY>>>> ISTR that the leaf count prior to it being stored in the
 RY>>>> basement of the jail and the leaf count of what was destroyed
 RY>>>> after that trial was /considerably/ different....
 LB>>> Nobody tried to pass off bay leaves, eh?

 RY>> no, indeed, /this/ was the /prime/ sutff, carefully cultivated,
 RY>> and worth a lot, even in 1978 dollars..

 LB> Stop it, you're making me weep at the thought........  :-/  Mother
 LB> Natures finest, wasted.....  

Not hardly, you may have misunderstood.. say that there were 200 pounds
originally seized..{about a pick-up truck load of whole plants}. Placed in the
"vault" {read basement of the jail} where it is cool and {fairly}
dry, due to
"reasons not known to the county attorney" there were only about half that
amount presented at trial..

You follow this now ?

Later, Jack may grace us with the Tale of the Evidentiary Moonshine....

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