The Life of Logan Belt, the Noted Desperado of Southern Illinois
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Excerpt from The Life of Logan Belt, the Noted Desperado of Southern Illinois: A Complete Life History of the Most Daring, Desperado Ever Known to Civilization We introduce in this pen sketch one of the most remarkable characters that ever figured in Southern Illinois. In fact, the writer does not believe that a man of like character ever existed. This man was Logan Belt, the very name of whom, Was a terror to all Southern Illinois and the adjoining border counties of Kentucky. Logan Belt was born in Hardin County, Illinois, October 20th, in the year 1840. His father, Hiram Belt, was a quiet farmer in the little county of Hardin, and was also a local minister of the Baptist persuasion. Such was the father of the subject of our sketch. He was powerless to control his family, and his sons therefore, very early in life, bade adieu to the parental hearthstone and drifted about at will; sometimes in Kentucky (where they had relatives), and sometimes in Illinois. Logan, however, seemed to be the "blue fowl of the brood," and invariably got into trouble wherever he went. The overbearing or "large I and small u" disposition that characterized his life throughout, after years of maturity had been reached, also displayed itself in his boyhood. One day two neighbor boys, John and Calvin Palmer, were passing through Hiram Belt´s orchard, and his son Logan seeing them, accosted them and in an insolent manner ordered them out. Young Calvin Palmer resented the untimely and uncalled for abuse, saying that he was not to be hurried, etc. This enraged young Logan, and seizing an ax crushed in the skull of young Palmer. Madame rumor soon spread the intelligence that the boy had been killed, and through the intervention of friends or relatives young Logan was hurried out of the country and developments in the case awaited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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