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Bloody Tangipahoa shootout assessed in court

Before his death on October 9, 1899, Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Avery R. Draughon told fellow deputies that Gage and Alonzo Gill accosted him at the train station in Tangipahoa, shooting him three times. Aleck and Jim Gill promised Deputy Sheriff W. J. Mullins their brothers would surrender by week’s end, but that never happened.

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