My grandfather who passed away at the age of 102 had been a county sheriff in 1900 at the turn of the century. I was talking to him when he was 100 and asked him if he ever shot anyone? His answer was no as in those days when we said we would shoot you we darn well shot you and no one wanted to be shot. He did go into a large group of strikers to arrest one and he put 2 deputies on a cliff overlooking the strikers and said if anyone touched him the deputies were under orders to shoot that person. No striker touched him.
He was the kindness person I ever met and well respected as a Sheriff and lived by the rule of law!
