Lindsey Graham
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15,077 appearances
196 recordings
52 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Lindsey Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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With it, I've killed 11 men, four of them in Indian territory, and I expected you to be the 12th.
Reeves had skillfully taken down his suspect.
But by killing Webb, he had lost any chance of earning a fee for his capture.
Deputy marshals like Reeves were paid through a fee system instead of an annual salary, earning money only when they successfully served papers or delivered prisoners to court.
But the prisoners had to be alive.
That was usually not a problem.
At a time when the typical deputy marshal earned roughly $500 a year, Reeves earned an average of $3,000 to $4,000 due to his frequent arrests, making him one of the highest-paid deputies in the Fort Smith court.
And while Reeves preferred to make arrests without drawing his gun, he was not above using lethal force when fugitives resisted or when his own life was at risk.
So although he would receive no payment for killing Webb, he took comfort that there was one less dangerous outlaw roaming Indian territory.
And the arrests kept coming.
Two months after he shot and killed Webb, Reeves brought 15 prisoners to Fort Smith.
One of them was the notorious outlaw Chubb Moore, a Chickasaw Indian accused of inciting a lynch mob against a black man.
It was a rare instance of a black law enforcement officer arresting a suspect for the crime of lynching, an outcome virtually unthinkable anywhere outside of Indian territory.
And by September 1885, Reeves' reputation loomed large enough that the infamous outlaw Belle Starr, one of the most notorious women in the West, voluntarily surrendered at Fort Smith after hearing that Reeves had a warrant for her arrest.
It was the only time she ever turned herself in.
But as Bass Reeves' legend grew, he began to face scrutiny.
In the fall of 1885, following the election of Democratic President Grover Cleveland, the Republican U.S.
Marshal overseeing Reeves' district was removed from office.
He was replaced by John Carroll, a Democrat and former Confederate officer who soon began investigating an old incident involving Reeves.
Back in the spring of 1884, Reeves had been traveling to Fort Smith with a wagonload of prisoners when one evening he discharged his rifle beside a campfire.
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