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SHERIFF MEEK.
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who was compelled to fire on him, the shots resulting fatally. The grand jury found no bill against Edmonds.[1] Not long after this, Sheriff Meek had a warrant to arrest V. W. Dawson, an enemy of the government, who openly defied the organization, and would have resisted the officer had not Meek been as kind and cool as he was courageous. Dawson, finding he must submit, thereafter was a firm friend of law, and insisted that as he obeyed, every other must.
- ↑ White's Concise View, MS., 40; Niles' Reg., lxviii. 393; Kaiser's Nar., MS., 10, 11; Salem Directory, 1871.
