Friday, June 13, 2014

Lebanon's "Desperado" Billy Martin

From the August Wild West Magazine "Desperado Billy Martin Grew Desperate Indeed When sentenced to the Gallows" by Larry Wood.

Last night, while talking with Romana Lehman at the office of the Munger-Moss Motel in Lebanon, Mo., she said that her husband Bob receives the Wild West Magazine and the August 2014 one had an article about a resident of town back in the 1800s whom she had never heard of before, Billy Martin.  I read the article and he led quite the checkered life.

Many people believe he killed men on at least two different occasions, he was jailed several times, sentenced to hang, escaped the Lebanon jail with the help of the sheriff's niece, who then ran off with him to North Carolina, where they married.

And the story just got better.

Check It Out  --  Cooter

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