Then the sheriff come out with the doctor's wife and guided her to his car. She took a seat in the back and Silence Schultz climbed in beside her. He wasn't saying nothing as you might of guessed. But she was sniveling, not outright crying, just sniveling. And they drove off and that's the last we seen of our beauty queen. Somehow her lawyer got the trial moved to Jackson. Said she couldn't get a fair trial in Harper County. Probably right. We not only lost a doctor, but had a blot put on all those years of harmony we had had here in Harper.
The sheriff, Frank Lee Sumlin, was like most sheriffs back then. He came in to office poor and left rich. You see the sheriff back then was also the tax collector and got a piece of the action. So the sheriff took his big Lincoln car and drove June McKinley to Jackson where she was jailed and in less than a year stood trial for the murder of her husband, the doctor.
Tomorrow: Sentencing a Beauty Queen
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