THE DAILY RANCHER

January 1946 Issue No. Seventeen

Double Death at Soledad Ranch!

By Sean Melvin

A woman was recently killed in a ranch in Soledad. She

was found laying dead by worker candy half covered in
hay with a broken neck on sundown of a gloomy day.
Candy’s story goes “I was lookin’ for Lennie, I had
somethin’ to tell ‘im. I was walkin’ ‘round and I see Mrs.
Court lying there. I thought she was sleeping, with her
rouged cheeks and reddened lips. I went up to her, and
called her name, but she wouldn’t wake. That’s when it
hit me that she was dead. I was really surprised. I had no
idea who could’ve it been. I started turning my sorrow
into words. I was screaming. The others head and they all
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come rushing down where I was.” This woman, Margret Nathan Hale
Court, was Curley Carlson Court, another worker’s wife.
Curley and his friends went to go hunt down the man
who killed his wife, Lennie Small. The men claimed that
Lennie was the man who murdered Margret, without any
proof. Curley says “We knew it was that son of a bitch,
Lennie. Lennie Small. There was no doubt about it. He
came one day with another guy named George. I was The jobs available to the common
always suspicious o’ them, and it turned out I was right to people these days, they just aren’t good
be. That no good, rat brained bastard crushed my hand,
then not long after, he killed my wife! He was probably enough. The wages are low compared to
harassing her, then he got mad because of god knows how much we are made work, and the
what and snapped her neck! I hear he’s already tried to
rape a little girl. Should have ridded of him sooner. We jobs offer no future to us. We need more,
went to hunt ‘im down, and we took George with us. good jobs. Number wise, there’s plenty
George was the one who found him and blowed his
brains out.” George Milton, Lennie’s partner on the other of jobs. But you would be under
hand says “It wasn’t Lennie’s fault. He didn’t intend to constant scrutiny while you were
kill her, but the bitch probably started doing something to
try to get Lennie in trouble as always, and she managed. I
working and you would have to be
tol’ Lennie to be careful of her, but I guess he was just too willing to do practically everything your
dumb to stay away. We found Lennie a couple of miles boss wanted you to do. We need higher
away from the ranch with a luger he apparently stole
from worker Carlson and I talked him into giving me the wages, and better treatment!
luger, then I shot ‘im, right in the back o’ his head.” The
luger was retrieved, and the apparent criminal was killed.
But did this man really deserve death? Was is right to kill
this man without proof?

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Ranch Owner’s Daughter-in-law Murdered by Worker
A ranch owner’s son, Curley Carlson Court’s Wife, Margret Court was found
murdered on a haystack. She was a beautiful woman with a harsh childhood. Her
parents made her loose all her chances of getting an amazing career and

Opinion: Racism becoming famous and rich. Any time someone came and asked her if she wanted
to be a model or movie star, her parents declined. She had no choice but to get
married and get away from home, and that led her straight into the murderer,
Lennie Small.
Many years back, we found this
land. Those days, we just kept
getting more and more and more. It
was an addiction. We needed more
power. Then we got a good idea.
We would kidnap africans. We
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would treat them like some kinds of
unearthly beings, so we could fell
like we were more important. We
discriminated against their skin
color, and enslaved them like the
horses we ride on and use to pull
our carridges. Perhaps some people
treated them treated them worse
than a horse. Of course, theres no
such thing as everybody being
equal, but still, isnt this a little too
much? There are far more George Milton
Lennie Small
similarities than differences. Do
you dare say that skin color is the
one important thing that matters? Big and strong and Hard working, and
Well, does that mean you would eat can work long hours, necessary to keep
an apple with disgusting little but not very bright. Lennie out of trouble.
critters inside it as long as it was
red like a good apple? You wouldn't
would you?

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