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Millers nothing worse than to have a mother knowing her son 

 is dead in the water down there — we would immedi- 

 ately set out, and many and many a time I set out 

 with a rowboat and a set of grappling hooks and we 

 recovered those bodies for the families. We had 

 twenty-three of such drownings in this county in my 

 eight years. 



In many other ways we strove to modernize the 

 office. Each and every move was an important one. 

 Specifically the most important one of all was the 

 fact that I perform as a trick shot, and perhaps 

 am one of the world's greatest trick shots. So 

 every noontime I used to shoot in the basement of 

 the courthouse here. We'd bring a prisoner out from 

 the jail and have him witness my shooting, and not 

 brag about it at all, just simply shoot, and then 

 lead him back into the jail. And the jailer would 

 say, "Veil, Sheriff, you shot well today." 



"Well, maybe I won't so so good tomorrow." 

 But it was impressive to the prisoner that here 

 was a man that was shooting and was able to shoot 

 and able to handle a gun. So from time to time I 



