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Posted by D. Sherman on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 at 22:11:00 :
In Reply to: Re: old 45-70 posted by Steve Elliot on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 at 21:15:54 :
Yes, wouldn't it? There's been plenty of speculation, but nobody with a solid theory. But then there's also nobody with a solid theory about the skeleton that was found in the unused chimney of an old downtown building a few years ago.
There was no other unusual "rebar" in that wall. Somebody obviously put that rifle in that wet concrete for a reason, and the reason probably wasn't to preserve it for future us. At this point, it might be hard to do a ballistics test with it to compare with bullets from unsolved murders. Wallace was a rough town back in the old days. That wall probably dated from around the time of the mining wars, which included a day-long running gun-battle between striking miners and Pinkertons hired by the mine owners, the dynamiting of the Hercules Mill, and later the Bunker Hill smelter, followed by martial law and a prison camp on the edge of town. Not too far from that wall, a friend of mine found an old set of iron knuckles under the wooden steps that go up the hillside. I'd heard of brass knuckles before, but not iron ones. Just another hint that even though Wallace was saturated with lawyers in its heyday, a lot of men took a more direct approach to settling their disagreements.
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