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The Last Laugh: Tom Tate of Texas (1912)
8 Jun 2016

The Last Laugh: Tom Tate of Texas (1912)

by Tobin T. Buhk | posted in: Headline Stories, Rogue's Gallery | 0

There’s the devil in that bottle, according to an old saying, and to drink from can be to swallow a shot of evil. At least according to Tom Tate, the twenty-five-year-old slayer from Tyler, Texas. His shot of evil led … Continued

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