HOW TO DISPOSE OF A DEAD DESPERADO

By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.
May 13, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

There was a time in this country that when a murdering desperado had been tracked down and smacked down by a righteous barrage of lead; his carcass was propped up on a board in front of the sheriff’s office or local saloon and prominently displayed as an example to other hard cases who might choose to prey upon the lives and property of innocent folk.

Since little thought was given to a dignified repose of a no account outlaw such public displays of the deceased gave gawkers time to verify that a scourge had in fact been removed from their midst while concomitantly satisfying their morbid inclines to goggle the riddled remains. After such frivolity and fun and a provision of ample time for the frontier photographers to etch the departed’s features upon their tintypes for posterity amid the flash and smoke of burning powder, the decomposing outlaw’s remains were loaded onto a buckboard and trundled up boot hill where he was deposited amid the subterranean digs of those who had preceded him in the journey to the smoky pits.

I have no recollection of a disposal of a lawless tyrant by other than what has been described, but cannot with certitude preclude at least a remote possibility that one or another of these bold outlaws might have been afforded - in deference to political correctness, religious preference, a local sheriffs fear that he might have killed the wrong man, or a president’s re-election - a burial at sea.

Well...You say, “This is just silly the inland locations most certainly would have prohibited such disposals in any regard.â€