Show executed man observes his anniversary kinton kingston mo its a matter of record tl that at E D G wallace who la is usually to be ven relaxing in the shade of the courthouse trees here Is dead cut but recently he celebrated his eighty ninth birthday wallace captured with three other men during the civil war was convicted of participation in I 1 u guerrilla warfare and sentenced to die the men were lined up rifles cracked and they tell fell forward wallace said his companions were dead but he unhurt fell from fright the execution squad came near and fired a bullet at the head of each man to make certain of death the bullet intended for wallace pierced life hla hat grooved his skull the sear scar remains t today oday as proof of his story |