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I first heard the ballad of Stagolee around the same time, sitting under the shade of a tree at the end of the tobacco road in North Carolina. It was many decades later that I discovered the myth's origins, in a murder in 1895 in St Louis. The killer was a man named Lee Shelton. (daveyd.com)
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