most interesting info I've found yet!

[yn9man]

What a great story. Let us know when the book is available.

yn9man

[Tephra]

Absolutely fantastic, sounds like one of those thrillers on TV . . . Put me down for a copy please     


Barbara                   

[yn9man]

With all the interest it should make the best seller list.

yn9man

[Burrow Digger]

Even tops the insane verdict I have for a distant relative (by marriage only)who murdered their local sheriff.   

I'd love to purchse the book or see the movie when it comes out.

BD

[Lydart]

Hate to be greedy ... but can I have two signed copies please ... one to keep and one for a present for  a friend !!

What a truly amazing story !   I'm going to cut, paste and email it, if I may, to a friends daughter who writes rather off the wall scripts for short films ...

Ever considered yourself as a nominee for the Booker ??  I can see it coming !

[Quinn]

Yes, go ahead and cut and paste and send.

I've only given an extremely rough overview of the whole affair.  It does get much more in depth - involving politicians of the time period being less than honest, refusals from the courts to accept results of a second autopsy that proved he was killed and did not commit suicide... in fact, for the time period - it was a VERY sordid affair all the way around!

I have started a very rough beginning already - am 3? 4? chapters into it.

Patty Quinn

[Paul E]

Well, Patty, I think you could persuade a publisher that you have worldwide interest in your book!  Add me to the list, too!

[Ninatoo]

Patty,

My research took me to Scottish Court records as my great great grandfather, a butcher,  was accused of selling tubercular meat.  After looking at the documents it seems it was probably a set up!  He lost his butcher shop as a result, and the case dragged on through nearly 20 years. 

But nothing so interesting as your amazing story!  I am curious to know what odd comment it was that your father used to say?

[Quinn]

In my family, especially on dad's side, no one was ever mentioned or talked about at all.  It was as if they did not want us to find anyone or know that they were even alive.

But dad would sometimes make the oddest remark about his father.  What he would say (sometimes for no reason at all) was:

"My dad went to South Dakota to get the man who killed his brother.  He got him and he left."

With no information preceding this, and dad refused to ever tell us what this meant - we never had ANY idea what it could mean or refer to. 

It was when these documents and papers came in that we were finally able to solve the mystery behind the remark!

Patty Quinn