The Trial (Chapter 12 of, "The Last Plantation")
The Trial
(1962-63) Chapter: 12
There was a boiling trial, and we all thought, all us from the vicinity and country where the Wallace’s had lived, we thought she, Burgendy Washington was either insane or possessed, and therefore sent to River Mount Hospital, in Prescott, Wisconsin, under the care of Dr. Whitman. Her lawyer was none other than the famous Henry Thompson, who did murder trials among others, he himself once was up for murder, but it was dismissed for the lack of information, he acted as his own lawyer in his own case, they had said he killed his wife and dropped her off in a junkyard, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Minnie Mae had left the Wallace Plantation, we all knew she would, it was just too, way too much for her to endure that night, it still haunts her folks say; when she awoke from her fall, the night Burgendy killed her son, she ran to he Stanley plantation, that was how the police was notified, and in the morning found the dead child, and her passed out on the floor, and she testified that she saw, what she saw, which was up to the prior moment of the slaying of the child, but did not see that actual happening, the murder itself, she had run out of the house. But Burgendy was not denying the killing anyhow, so she was guilty by her own mouth.
Us folks at the trial, none of us ever had to consider such a mishap, I mean, she was guilty, but there was insanity involved. We kind of thought, any kind of murder is a form of insanity, but I guess not. So there were technicalities involved.
The Hospital was quite expensive, and Thompson suggested she stay there, and in three to four years, she’d be out, actually after her money run out, she’d be out, but she needed to sell the plantation to pay the hospital bills, and lawyer bills, the hospital was costly, and Abby was at each day of the trial, and made a deal with the lawyer, to have Burgendy sign the deed of the plantation over to her for $150,000-dollars, and thus, she’d have $190,000 with the money in the back, enough for at least two to three years expenses, hopefully for the hospital and lawyer would not be more. A private hospital, and not a burden on the state, and in time, folks might forget her, and so, it was the way Thompson wanted her to go and she did just that.
Burgendy signed it without a peep, and grabbed the Bible, and did as Thompson told her, started reading it from page one to the end page of the whole New and Old Testaments, and would go to church on Sundays, to become UN- possessed, and if she couldn’t, at least pretend to be.
It was now 1963. Abby did leave $2000 extra dollars in her account personal account, to buy things she might need in the hospital, and signed the other money over to the lawyer to pay her bills.
And now the plantation returned back to its old and rightful owners, and Whisky Charlie moved in, moved out of Ozark, Alabama, and moved in with his family member, his cousin Abby, first cousin, once and for all.
(1962-63) Chapter: 12
There was a boiling trial, and we all thought, all us from the vicinity and country where the Wallace’s had lived, we thought she, Burgendy Washington was either insane or possessed, and therefore sent to River Mount Hospital, in Prescott, Wisconsin, under the care of Dr. Whitman. Her lawyer was none other than the famous Henry Thompson, who did murder trials among others, he himself once was up for murder, but it was dismissed for the lack of information, he acted as his own lawyer in his own case, they had said he killed his wife and dropped her off in a junkyard, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Minnie Mae had left the Wallace Plantation, we all knew she would, it was just too, way too much for her to endure that night, it still haunts her folks say; when she awoke from her fall, the night Burgendy killed her son, she ran to he Stanley plantation, that was how the police was notified, and in the morning found the dead child, and her passed out on the floor, and she testified that she saw, what she saw, which was up to the prior moment of the slaying of the child, but did not see that actual happening, the murder itself, she had run out of the house. But Burgendy was not denying the killing anyhow, so she was guilty by her own mouth.
Us folks at the trial, none of us ever had to consider such a mishap, I mean, she was guilty, but there was insanity involved. We kind of thought, any kind of murder is a form of insanity, but I guess not. So there were technicalities involved.
The Hospital was quite expensive, and Thompson suggested she stay there, and in three to four years, she’d be out, actually after her money run out, she’d be out, but she needed to sell the plantation to pay the hospital bills, and lawyer bills, the hospital was costly, and Abby was at each day of the trial, and made a deal with the lawyer, to have Burgendy sign the deed of the plantation over to her for $150,000-dollars, and thus, she’d have $190,000 with the money in the back, enough for at least two to three years expenses, hopefully for the hospital and lawyer would not be more. A private hospital, and not a burden on the state, and in time, folks might forget her, and so, it was the way Thompson wanted her to go and she did just that.
Burgendy signed it without a peep, and grabbed the Bible, and did as Thompson told her, started reading it from page one to the end page of the whole New and Old Testaments, and would go to church on Sundays, to become UN- possessed, and if she couldn’t, at least pretend to be.
It was now 1963. Abby did leave $2000 extra dollars in her account personal account, to buy things she might need in the hospital, and signed the other money over to the lawyer to pay her bills.
And now the plantation returned back to its old and rightful owners, and Whisky Charlie moved in, moved out of Ozark, Alabama, and moved in with his family member, his cousin Abby, first cousin, once and for all.
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