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Police find something fishy about dead man’s legs

On a Thursday, October 28, 1948, police arrested a 68-year-old plantation straw boss for falsely reporting the death of his son, a Tallulah Bend fisherman. Authorities jailed George E. Dowdy under a 5,000 dollar bond after arresting his “dead” son, 23-year-old James D. Dowdy, at the Louisiana-Texas border.

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