It was 1875 it was another day at lidtke mill as Mr Barton and his dog mark went to work Mr Barton liked his job and his Co workers butt one person didn’t like him his name was Jeff and today was a perfect day for Jeff because it was a thunderstorm that they see every year only in this storm Mr Barton would die. As the day was ending mark and Mr Barton came to the edge of the mills roof both wearing their cotton coats. As Mr Barton was talking to mark . Mr Barton was obsessed with trying to bring back his dead wife who froze to death in the upper Iowa river a year ago by accidentally falling in the river only she was murdered and m Barton knew that she was murdered butt he didn’t know who it was but he also didn’t know that the killer was stagnating …show more content…
Later that year Jeff was just getting ready to leave when he heard something fall when he turned he screamed so hard his face went red he backed up to the wall as the nightmarish Mr Barton and mark came closer Jeff pleaded for mercy butt what he didn’t know is that they planned to kill him and Cody who was in the next room who had grabbed his gun from his coat he burst through the door he went pale with horror as he saw what was Jeff's body that had been electrocuted by Mr Barton and Mark Cody thought that Jeff must have been struck by lighting or got shocked by the machinery. A year later Mr Barton and mark took out their revenge on Cody who was currently leaving work when he saw them he didn't scream he just stood there and he said I know you're here to kill me he then grabbed a piece of wood and tried to hit them the ghosts grabbed him and threw him into the river he soon drowned. Later Dave who had hired cody and jeff to kill Mark and Barton and his wife because of the money he owed him. Dave was driving out of town one night and he looked at his mirror and saw a nightmarish dog wearing what looked the remains of a cotton coat and a man whose face was scratched and had pieces of flour stuck in his face and a ripped cotton coat. he went even faster a couple minutes later he thought he lost
Bill comes out to see Mary about to be raped and he starts to fight him. The start throwing punches and then Jack buts in the fight with a gun to try to apprehend Ralph but then the gun was fired. Mary is shot and killed by accident by Ralph but then since Bill was knocked out by Ralph, Jack made him believe that he had shot Mary, his
After Lizzie Borden's mother passed away her father remarried. Lizzie was unable to accept this new marriage and new stepmother who her father brought into their home. Lizzie was so troubled over this that she attempted to kill her father and stepmother by poisoning them, which was unsuccessful. In her second attempt Lizzie whacked them both to death by using a hatchet. Thought Lizzie was found innocent after several trials the truth was never discovered. When Lizzie Borden died, she took the truth with her, being the only person to ever really knowing the truth to what happened to her father and stepmother that August day.
... treats Piney as her own child, and is moved with the couples love. After ten days of living in the cabin, she died from starvation. She requested to Oakhurst to give the rations she has been saving to Piney. He felt all them were already hopeless, so he ordered Tom to hike to Poker Flat and try to get some help. After a couple of days, when the help arrived in the cabin, the found two women huddled together, frozen to death, and close by Oakhurst was found with a gun near him, a bullet right through his heart, and a suicide note saying “Beneath this tree, Lies the body of John Oakhurst, who struck a streak of bad luck on the twenty third of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the seventh of December, 1850.” (Harte 458). This story shows that people can change their life when they want to, and that anyone can develop feeling despite whatever they did before.
killed by Mark for wanting to do the right thing and tell the truth. Jeff is one of the guys who helps with the kidnapping, He does whatever Mark tells him to do. Jeff is also a poor student in Mr.
A predominantly black town in Florida by the name of Rosewood was abandoned in 1923 due to the city being left in devastating ruins after a horrendous bloodshed massacre. The massacre was initiated by accusations of a black man by the name of Jesse Hunter assaulting a white female by the name of Fanny Taylor. But their troubles didn’t begin there this was long awaiting battle due to prior false information that often ended with a black person being lynched.The incident regarding Jesse Hunter and Fanny Taylor set havoc to the little town of Rosewood.In spite of the rumors that the two were romantically involved or that at least the woman was using the incident to cover up her premarital affairs. Meanwhile, members of the Ku Klux Klan rallied in nearby towns and gathered people to go and rise terror on Rosewood. The one person who knew the truth was a man named Sam Cartier. Who was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan as a warning to whoever was helping Jesse. It was soon rumored that Jesse’s friend Aaron’s cousin Sylvester was hiding him at his house. The KKK demanded
The book, The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories, written by Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, is composed of two parts. Part one, The Death of Berngera Caswell, analysis’s the social history of the mid 1800’s to explore a mill girl’s life. This text makes use of general trends and factual information to support and provide an explanation of the murder of Mary Bean. Part two is composed of two stories, Mary Bean, The Factory Girl and Life of George Hamilton. This text explores the cultural history of the mid 1800’s using fictional newspapers, articles, and novels as support. The Murder of Mary Bean does not only provide the reader with the gruesome detail of one murder, this book issues an understanding of the complications
Young black boy, Jefferson, was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was in a bar with two friends when they murdered the white bartender. Jefferson was unfairly convicted of murder and sentenced to the electric chair by a white judge and jury. His defense lawyer, in an attempt to avoid the death sentence, labeled him a "hog”. It was this label that Jefferson's godmother wants disproved. She enlisted the help of a school teacher, Grant Wiggins, who at first wasn’t too kind for the idea of helping a crook. Grant agrees to talk with Jefferson only out of a sense of duty. Due to all the humiliation at the hands of the white sheriff, Jefferson's lack of cooperation, and his own sense of unsure faith, Grant forges a bond with Jefferson that leads to wisdom and courage for both. At first, Jefferson saw himself as a hog, and nothing but a hog.
In 1880 a group of strangers board a stagecoach. The stagecoach is heading eastward from Tonto, Arizona to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Among these strangers is Doc Boone an alcoholic doctor, Dallas a prostitute, Mrs. Mallory a pregnant lady and Samuel Peacock a whiskey salesman. Marshal Curly Wilcox tells the stagecoach driver, Buck that his regular ride along guard went hunting for Ringo Kid. Wilcox decides to ride in place of the regular guard when Buck informs him the Plummer brother's are in Lordsburg.
It begins on Thursday August 4th 1892 in the town of Fall Rivers Massachusetts Andrew Borden a wealthy director of several banks in the area was found dead in the parlor of his Massachusetts home. Andrew was found by his daughter, whom would be charged for the crimes, with his head hacked and bleeding severally. As help arrived from the neighbors in the community of closely built homes, and as the police were in route to help, the body of Andrews’s wife Abby Borden was found dead in the guest bedroom of the same Massachusetts home killed with what was found out to be the same ax that took her husband.
Tom Robison is a Negro male that gets hand caught in a cotton gin. Tom is being accused of raping a young female named Mayella.Tom Robison is a Negro male that gets hand caught in a cotton gin. Tom passed by Mayella’s house everyday, she seemed to always have something for Tom to do. He claims that he is just being nice to her because nobody else would. Mayella seems to be a lonely girl ,with no friends her age ,she stays to her self. In court Mayella is easily angerd by Atticus questions she even got mad when he referd to her as ma’am and Ms. The town knows whats goin on but refuse to believe it, simpily because of there hatred towards
went to the war, his father was attacked by a group of Bushwackers. Jeff was frightened, and
It was Sunday October 8th about 8:45pm, when Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan went to visit the O’Learys’ house only to find out they were asleep. So Sullivan walked across the street to Thomas White’s house and sat down to lean against the fence. The wind was very strong that night and there was a party at the McLaughlin’s to celebrate the arrival of a relative from Ireland. Sullivan decided to go home when he noticed a fire in the O’Learys’ barn. He started shouting, “FIRE!” as loud as he could and ran to the barn to save the five cows, horse, and calf inside. As he did, his peg leg got stuck in the floorboards. He hung onto the calf as they made their way out (13, 14,15).
This morning October 8th 1965 at about 5:13 am the body of Bob Sheldon was found lying next to the park fountain he was seen to be in a pool of blood. His body had a single stab wound in his back which had pierced his heart, killing him instantly. Supposed eye witnesses say that a small boy who was a member of the "Greaser Gang" attacked and killed Bob and intended to kill the rest of them. Cherry Valance claims that she was walking with Johnny and Ponyboy after the movies when Bob approached them in his car and threatened the two them. Be on the lookout for the two boys with the description of one that has long light-brown hair, green eyes, and is about five feet tall and another has long jet-black hair, large black eyes, and is about four feet six inches. The first one is considered to be Ponyboy and the second one is considered to be Johnny. The two are now on the run they were last seen at a party with Dally. Investigators report that Dally says he has no idea where these two are but he thinks that they are going to Mexico. A woman was taking a walk through the park and discovered the bloody corpse she said “I was hesitant at first because I thought they were watching me, but I gained some courage and called 911” the friends that were their helping Bob bully the 2 said they were there during the homicide, but decided not to call the police because they were drunk and they were scared after seeing him dead. They said, the murderer was a 16 year old boy named Johnny Cade.
Jeff was the class clown, known for doing things as ridiculous as faking seizures for laughs. In fact, he was lonely and isolated in school, with few friends.
When Ms. Emily was younger, her deceased father used to force away all the young men that was in love with her. The summer after her father death, she fell in love with a Yankee by the name of Homer Barron. Everyone in the town was whispering about their relationship and wondering if they were married. After a while they stop seeing Homer and decided that they got married. The townspeople then proceeds by saying that Ms. Emily then died a while after. They didn't know she was sick.