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UNDER INDICTMENT

1. You Just Can’t Sit

“After this happened I was home for a month,” Ronald August told me. “I was suspended one week after the incident happened, then they issued a warrant for arrest two weeks after this incident happened. In the mail I had threats. My phone is unlisted. Haven’t had one phone call that was a threat; had a few that offered help as far as assistance in attorney fees and so on and so forth, that came through the switchboard, Bell Telephone, that shouldn’t even have got here, but they got through. Now if anyone wanted to make a threat, apparently they didn’t get through, I don’t know. I’ve just had mail. I’d give a guess at about six letters, which it came within a week after the incident. I stayed home for a month, just did nothing. My friends naturally came over and talked to me, and this was no good, either, because you just can’t sit and do nothing. So I started working grounds maintenance. Our job was raking leaves and edging along the sidewalk and curb lines. It was a very good job if you like outdoor work, and which I do. But this is sort of a seasonal operation.”