Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Great Regulars: Jack begins by reporting the startling news

that he would have been hanged by a lynch mob, if he had not been "secretly hurried away/To the jail in Peoria." He implies that his deed in Spoon River had worked up a number of folks who were ready to administer justice even without a proper trial.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Edgar Lee Masters' Jack McGuire

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