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Goat Castle

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by Karen L. Cox

Tobacco farming, 9

  Toelle, Frederika. See Dockery, Frederika Toelle

  Tourism: in Europe, 9; at Glenwood, 84–85, 118–20, 124–29, 148–50, 149; in Natchez, 6–7, 117, 147–49, 169

  Trains, to Natchez, 7, 12

  Trial: of Burns (See Burns, Emily, trial of); of Dana, 156–57, 160; of Dockery, 156–60, 164; of Geiger, 157

  Trinity Episcopal Church (Natchez), 38, 80, 170

  True crime stories, popularity in Great Depression of, 4, 103–4

  Truly, Everett, 155

  Tucker, Clay: in Burns’s trial, 134–35, 137, 138; in Dana and Dockery’s trial, 157; on indictment of Dana and Dockery, 132, 147, 155, 156, 199n5; in murder investigation, 92, 101; in release of Dana and Dockery from jail, 86, 132

  Tullos, Chester, 146, 201n47

  Twenty-Five Village Sermons (Kingsley), 48

  Two Years before the Mast (Dana), 35

  Union army: black soldiers in, 11; in Natchez, 11, 18–20, 25; in Port Gibson, 37–38; in Vicksburg, 17–18

  United Press International, 124

  Vagrancy laws, 58–59

  Vanderbilt University, 39, 111

  Vardaman, James K., 162

  Vicksburg, Miss.: in Civil War, 17–18, 37, 40, 42; Freedmen’s Bureau in, 60

  Violence, mob, 97

  Virginia, slave trade in, 10

  Walden, Fanny, “My Prison Life,” 164

  Washington, Booker T., 74

  Washington, George, 36

  Wealth: of Dockery family, 40; of Merrill family, 11, 17, 20, 66, 95, 171–72; in Natchez, during Civil War, 11; of Surget family, 17, 25

  Wells, Homer G.: “The Crimson Crime at Glenburney Manor,” 14, 150–51; Master Detective, 150–51, 189n16

  Wells, Zaida Marion: on black vs. white suspects, 81; on Burns’s sentence, 200n43; on Burns’s trial, 140, 142–43; on fingerprint evidence, 140; The Merrill Murder Mystery, 14, 191n16; on Merrill’s life, 105–6; on night of murder, 71, 105, 142–43

  Whale display, 103

  White, Hugh, 165, 166

  White women: in aristocracy, expectations for, 17; vs. black women, as ladies, 99–100; at Parchman prison, 161–62; service clubs of, 23

  Wilds Pond, 77, 87

  Will, of Merrill, 95, 103, 107, 170

  Williams, Lawrence (alias George Pearls and Pinkney Williams): aliases of, 58, 88, 93, 194n13; birth of, 53, 58, 188n1; Burns’s introduction to, 58; Burns’s relationship with, 5, 62; in Chicago, 5, 53, 60–61, 94, 194n19; childhood of, 58; clothes of, 68, 98, 135, 138, 139; criminal record of, 94; Dana and Dockery’s introduction to, 62, 63, 89, 172, 190n1; daughter of (Amelia), 61, 91, 94, 194n13; death of, 5, 87–88, 91, 93, 108; family of, 58, 61, 188n1; funeral for, 92; injury to hand of, 89–90; jobs held by, 61, 62, 172; move into Burns’s home, 5, 58, 61–62; photograph of, 59; physical appearance of, 58, 189n15; search for work with Minor and Merrill, 61, 62, 63, 82, 88, 89, 108; second wife of (Meadie), 61, 62, 91–92; trunk of, 59, 68, 89, 90–91, 189n16; use of nickname “Pink” for, 58, 189n14

  Williams, Lawrence, in Merrill murder, 87–94; Burns’s confession on, 97–102, 135; at Burns’s trial, 135–39; Burns threatened by, 65, 90, 98, 190n5; at Dockery’s trial, 158; fingerprints of, 92, 94; flight after, 5, 68, 87–88, 98; grand jury on, 132–33; gun of, 66–67, 68, 88, 93, 100, 137; identification of, 92–94, 137; as murder suspect, 5; postmortem conviction of, 5, 133, 134; press coverage of, 104, 107–8; role of, 63–68; search for, 82, 86, 87–92; true bill against, 133

  Williams, Meadie. See Pearls, Meadie

  Winston, Louis, 89, 90, 136

  Wisner, La., lynching in, 97

  Women: double standard for, 99–100, 173, 195n32; at Parchman prison, 161–62, 163, 164. See also Black women; White women

  Wright, Richard, 12–13

  Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad, 127

  Young, Stark, So Red the Rose, 13

  Zeeland, SS, 22

  Zerkowsky, Charles, 56, 150, 169

  Zerkowsky, Isaac, 156–57, 170, 171

  Zerkowsky, Sam, 171

  Zerkowsky, Seaman, 170, 171

  Zerkowsky family, 169–71

 

 

 


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