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"One other man from Sullivan County (Tenn.) was executed
for murder, according th the memory of Blountwi. at e@ attor=
ney Hal Carr, who was told the story as a boy by his

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Jeff, ae hung 'before Iarge crowds’ in Plountville, the
scaffold set up where one corner of the courhhouse
Stands. Mays had killed a man bs the name of aden
with a pitchfork, Carr said his father told him 'Sher
Abe McClellan's hand trembled as he cut the rope with a
hatchet, '"

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