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    "text": "They would have lynched me",
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    "text": "Had I not been secretly hurried away",
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    "text": "To the jail at Peoria.",
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    "text": "And yet I was going peacefully home,",
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    "text": "When Logan, the marshal, halted me,",
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    "text": "With that Prohibition loaded cane⁠—",
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    "text": "All this before I shot him.",
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    "text": "They would have hanged me except for this:",
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    "text": "My lawyer, Kinsey Keene, was helping to land",
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    "text": "Old Thomas Rhodes for wrecking the bank,",
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    "text": "For fourteen years for me.",
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