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Let the record show I killed 51 men.

Get up there.

Miller: please allow me To introduce myself.

I am a man of faith And good taste.

Jim miller is pure evil.

Bell: it's almost like A vortex of evilness

Had descended upon the west.

Miller: I tell folks I'm a businessman.

That's the truth.

But my main business is murder.

¶

Boardman: jim miller was ahead Of his time.

He was murder incorporated. Before the gangster era.

He would've fit in perfectly With al capone's chicago.

¶

Miller: killing just always Came natural to me.

And I discovered That folks would pay handsomely

For the service I provided.

Gomber: a lot of people thought He was a man of god.

He may have sent a lot of people In god's direction,

But he certainly wasn't His representative.

Miller: Most folks know me as deacon Jim miller or just killer jim.

If you want somebody dead, I'm your man.

¶

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Boardman: Describing jim miller in A couple of different words --

Cagey, smart, deadly,

At least outwardly upright And upstanding,

But a blackened soul.

Jim miller was not what you Expect a gunfighter to be like.

He didn't drink.

He didn't use foul language.

He was a family man.

He went to church.

In fact, one of his nicknames Was deacon jim miller.

¶ it is well with my soul

But behind that mask was a very, Very deadly and dangerous man.

We don't have a thing To worry about, fellas.

I can't count how many times I've been on trial for murder.

Lindsey: one way or another,

Jim miller beat Every murder charge

That was ever brought Against him.

These local jails ain't so bad.

Anything you gentlemen want, You just let me know,

And I'll order it up for ya.

We'll be out of here In no time.

[ sniffles ]

[ sighs ]

Miller: in april of 1909,

I found myself In a familiar predicament --

Enjoying free overnight Accommodations

In another small prairie town

Where I'd been accused Of a crime

No man who valued his life Would dare try to prove.

Roth: miller basically had A number of ways

Of dealing with Potential witnesses.

He would scare most of them off Just with his reputation.

In other cases, He would kill them

Or have somebody else Kill them.

Or he would pay them To be quiet,

You know, Before they testified.

And so, you know, He basically felt bulletproof

Throughout most of his life.

Can I get you anything else, Mr. Miller?

Thank you.

You watch.

Case'll be dropped For lack of evidence.

We'll all go home.

That's just the way It works.

I guarantee it.

Miller: I'd been locked up Along with three cattlemen

Who hired me to kill a lawman Named gus bobbitt.

But everything was going Just the way it should,

Just like All the other murder trials.

I didn't know yet it wasn't the Trial I had to be worried about.

¶

Cain is not sorry For his horrific sin.

It is the punishment That he cannot bear.

Miller: I've never feared punishment.

Even as a kid, I was a natural at avoiding it.

Miller's first real Documented killing

Was his own brother-in-law.

We don't know exactly What the motive was.

But jim miller had something Against his brother-in-law

John coop.

And jim, in fact, ahead of time Had been telling people,

"I'm gonna kill that guy."

Gomber: Miller had been living with This guy, coop, and his sister.

He set up a perfect alibi For himself --

He went to church.

And while he was at church, He slipped away.

The answer is evil.

¶ when peace, Like a river ¶

He rode an incredible distance As quick as he could

To get back To the home of john coop.

Miller: I told coop I was gonna kill him.

He didn't believe me, Told me I didn't have the nerve.

I guess we were both about To find out.

¶

Boardman: And there, coop was asleep On the porch.

And jim miller approached him With a shotgun

And emptied both loads Into his brother-in-law,

Killing him instantly.

Miller: I guess I had the nerve, Just like I told him.

When the time came To pull the trigger,

I never gave it A second thought.

Then, he quickly got back On his horse,

Raced back To the revival meeting

And went through the prayers And the hymns

Just as if Nothing had happened.

I think, If anybody was born to kill,

Jim miller was born to kill.

Miller: Church is the perfect alibi.

That wasn't the only time I killed a man

When I was supposed to be In church.

The appearance of holiness can Cover up a whole lot of sins.

Lindsey: Miller worked for years

To cultivate the image Of a good man

So that when he was brought up On trial, he could get out

Because the jury And the citizens

Would have a good impression Of him.

He was in church that day, As witnesses will attest.

Miller: I was found guilty At my first murder trial.

Sentenced to life in prison.

Well, that's why the good lord Created lawyers,

And I had me a good one.

He got the whole damn case Thrown out of court on appeal.

I was never found not guilty, Mind you, but I was set free.

And that's all that counts.

You don't have to be Found innocent

To get away with murder.

The state has not met Its burden of proof.

The case is dismissed.

[ gavel pounding ]

Monahan: It was so easy to get a murder Conviction overturned

On a technicality.

There could be a misspelling In something.

There could be a date wrong.

You talk about technicalities Today where criminals get off.

It was worse back in the 1800s.

Miller: I was only 17.

That was the first Of my many courtroom victories.

But it wasn't the first time I got away with murder.

I can tell you for sure That lawmen

Don't know What the hell to do

With a murder suspect Who's 8 years old.

According to legend, his first Victims were his grandparents.

Now, son, you must've heard Something --

A horse, A wagon approaching the house.

O'neal: He started off as a child.

There was a screw loose.

He lost his father At a very young age,

And he and his mother went To live with the grandparents.

The grandparents were murdered When he was 8,

And everybody knew he did it.

You must've heard Something.

This is how I found them When I came in for lunch,

Except there was no lunch, And I'm powerful hungry.

Son, do you have a gun Of your own?

I sure do. A right nice one, too.

Do you want to see it?

Son, why don't you come with us Till we figure this out?

He was never actually charged Or brought to trial for that.

¶

We didn't have much juvenile law Enforcement in those days.

Gomber: it'd be very fair To call jim miller a psychopath.

He was an awful excuse For a human being -- awful.

O'neal: he had no regrets About any of his killings,

And I regard him as despicable.

Miller: After being cleared

In the killing Of my brother-in-law, john coop,

I left the scene of the crime

And drifted across texas For a few years.

Jim miller In his younger years

Followed along with the pursuits In the kinds of crimes

That a lot of the other Oklahoma-area outlaws did.

You know, petty crimes -- Stealing cattle,

Stealing horses, That kind of thing.

Miller: Then, I hooked up with a rough Frontier family

Who could appreciate My many talents --

The clements clan.

The clements family were cousins Of the hardin family --

John wesley hardin --

And they were known As killers themselves.

Mannen clements Was a well-known gunfighter.

Jim started working for them Somewhere in the mid-1880s

On their ranch, Doing a variety of jobs.

Lindsey: Mannen got a son named manny

Who would become One of jim's favorite henchmen.

Jim would later marry Manny's sister, sally.

Manny sort of was a chip off The old block.

And sally too.

Sally had a lot Of rough edges herself.

Sally and me settled down In pecos,

Where the sheriff was looking To hire a deputy.

In 1891, bud frazer Was elected sheriff.

And, of course, If you're a sheriff,

You're always looking For good deputies.

One of the first people to apply For a job was jim miller.

And, of course, It was considered very rude

To ask about Someone's background.

Welcome, jim.

Glad to have you here.

Hutton: But that was part of the whole Allure of the west.

Everyone was Reinventing themselves.

You didn't want to be asked About your past either.

And so you didn't look into What people had done before.

And that's why so many outlaws Get hired as lawmen.

Pecos is A quiet little town.

Not a lot of crime In these parts.

It's our job To keep it that way.

Miller: bud frazer. That poor bastard.

He thought I was just the man For the job.

You got a real nice Town here, bud.

Sally and I have met A lot of fine folks,

Good christian folks.

It's just the sort of town We were looking for.

Boardman: Jim miller presented an image

Of an upright And upstanding citizen.

He went to the methodist church Every sunday.

So on the outside, he looked Like the perfect gentleman.

Roth: So frazer hires miller.

Pretty soon, They're starting to see

Miller doesn't seem To be arresting anybody,

But more cows and more horses Are disappearing.

Miller: pecos was the land Of opportunity,

Particularly for an outlaw With a badge.

Me and old bud frazer Got along just fine...

For a while,

Until he got suspicious And stripped my badge.

From then on, As they say,

Pecos wasn't big enough For the both of us.

The only question was, Who would kill who first?

As time went on, they held The town in a grip of fear.

There was a reign of terror In pecos.

Miller: Welcome, gentlemen.

You are looking at the New deputy of pecos, texas.

After drifting around texas For a few years,

I, jim miller, fell in with A group of like-minded outlaws

Who could support My business endeavors.

And I found the perfect base

From which to build A criminal empire.

Man: What about the sheriff?

I'll take care Of bud frazer.

He won't bother you.

We play our cards right,

They'll never solve another Crime in this town again.

[ laughter ]

Drink to that.

Bud frazer had no business Being sheriff.

I guess that's why He hired me --

To put some muscle In the sheriff's office.

That's how I became the last Person anyone suspected

When a crime wave hit pecos.

Boardman: Bud frazer quickly found out

It was the worst mistake Of his life,

Because jim more or less

Let crime run rampant Around the city

Because he was controlling The crime.

He'd become a godfather Of sorts.

Miller: Pecos was a sweet setup.

We were rustling all the horses And cattle we could take

With impunity.

At first, We had our run of the place,

Did pretty much as we pleased.

Well, For a little while, anyway.

Until I shot a mexican prisoner

To keep him quiet About two mules I had stolen.

Even I couldn't talk my way Out of that one.

Supposedly, This guy had information

About him stealing The two mules.

And this was typical miller To kill witnesses.

He comes in And tells frazer that,

"I had to shoot a prisoner For trying to escape."

And frazer really doesn't Buy that at all.

The hell happened, jim?

Little bastard Made a break for it.

There was nothing I could do.

Killing that eyewitness Kept me out of jail,

But my lawman days were over For the moment.

And so when he's accused of all This, he's fired by bud frazer.

And, of course, miller Doesn't take that very well.

Miller: I had blown the perfect cover

All 'cause of a couple Of damn mules.

But there was no way I was gonna let

Some pesky two-bit sheriff Get in the way of business.

Bud had to go out of town For a while.

And when he did,

Vice and crime ran rampant Under miller's reign.

Miller: It was convenient timing.

We kept up our operations While bud was away

And planned a nice little Homecoming party for his return.

Miller and his, you know, Acolytes, they start conniving.

"Well, how can we get this guy Out of the way

So we can have this All to ourselves?"

We got it good now.

But we got to kill bud When he gets back to town.

You're gonna shoot The sheriff?

I'm not gonna shoot him.

You are --

By accident.

Lindsey: the conspirators were Planning to stage a gunfight

At the train station as frazer Was getting off the train.

Their plan was that A gun would go off

And mistakenly hit frazer.

He would just accidentally catch A stray bullet

As he stepped off the train.

Miller: truth is, It was a pretty good plan.

Probably would've worked, too,

Except I had no way of knowing An old friend of frazer's

Was within earshot.

And there's somebody named Con gibson

That overhears this plot.

[ train horn blowing ]

Man: he's gonna be here. Man #2: where are they?

Where's the horse? I don't know.

Where's the horse?

I told you It was gonna be here.

Miller: damned if gibson Didn't warn frazer.

So when the sheriff stepped down Off that train,

He wasn't alone.

[ train horn blows ]

Frazer: halt!

Now, there ain't gonna be no gun Play here today, boys.

You put them down!

Arrest these men.

Lindsey: he had A couple of rangers with him,

And they spoiled This assassination attempt.

Who else you got With ya, huh?

Who else?

So it saved his life, At least for the time being.

Miller: my cronies were charged With attempted murder,

And con gibson was to be The prosecution's star witness.

That is, if they could get him To the stand.

Con gibson, who had alerted Bud frazer to the plot,

Tried to get away.

He went to eddy, new mexico, To try and protect himself,

To hide out Until the trial was held.

It didn't do any good.

Miller: I sent my best hit man, John denson, to track him down.

Needless to say, That was the end of con gibson.

Of course, once gibson was dead, The state had no witness

To testify about our plot To kill bud frazer.

So all the charges against us Were dropped.

And if that weren't enough To put frazer on his heels,

You should've seen the look On his face

When he saw me With a new badge.

Then miller's appointed Town marshal,

And that can't really go over Too well with bud frazer.

Roth: town marshal's Like a one-man police force.

It's like the police chief Of a city.

Boardman: So he still had power.

He still could let crime Run rampant.

But he also made it known To a lot of people

That bud frazer was gonna pay A big price for what he'd done.

Friend.

I believe I know your face from The assembly of the faithful.

Very well may be.

Miller: It just killed poor old bud

That most folks Still thought of me

As a respectable member Of the community

Who they could trust To keep the peace.

And, well, He just sort of snapped.

Frazer decided He might be smart

To just go ahead And kill the guy.

Boggs: Frazer's walking back and forth.

And eventually, Frazer just comes up there,

Pulls his gun, Starts shooting...

You're a rustler And a murderer, jim.

This is for con gibson.

What the hell, bud?

...And hits him in the chest, Hits him in the arm,

Knocks him down.

[ groans ]

Frazer figures, "Man, this guy's dead."

Bell: jim miller was shot Point-blank by bud frazer.

Now, anybody would think That the guy was long gone.

You know, Bullets do the weirdest things,

And it's so amazing who survives And who doesn't.

This is for con gibson.

Miller: Everybody thought I was dead,

That bud frazer emptied his Revolver into me point-blank.

But everybody don't know Deacon jim.

Doc, doc, get him a bed.

He's a strong son of a bitch. I'll give him that.

When they take miller in, They pull off his coat.

They realize he's got a steel Plate to protect his heart.

That's pretty smart.

So miller survives.

[ groans ]

Bell: It still had to hurt, though.

A .45 bullet hitting A metal plate

Has still got to hurt your chest A little bit.

It's got to do some damage there To your innards, I would think.

I don't take well to the likes Of bud frazer taking me down.

You tell him That he can't kill me

Nor run me out of town Neither.

Next time, I'll get him.

Doc, cut me open. Get this bullet out of me.

Miller: I told the boys to keep quiet About the metal plate.

Bud frazer had no idea.

The poor bastard Had to be wondering,

"What the hell do I have to do To get rid of this guy?"

After their sheriff Gunned me down in cold blood,

The good people of pecos, texas, Took away bud's badge.

Boggs: but by this point, Jim miller's had enough.

He said, "I'm tired of this guy."

He says, "I'm gonna kill bud frazer

If I have to crawl 20 miles On my knees to do it."

God gave moses 10 commandments.

His wrath is merciless If you break them.

Thou shall not steal, covet, Or bear false witness.

Thou shall have No other gods before me.

Thou shall not kill...

...For all who kill By the sword will,

In the end, Perish by the sword...

So miller found frazer In a saloon.

Can you believe miller?

[ scoffs ]

Thinks I'm afraid of him.

Well, I ain't afraid Of no man.

Damn sure not afraid Of no cowardly bastard like him.

I lost my badge.

My badge.

That ain't right.

Miller sticks his head and his Shotgun barrel in the door

And immediately cuts loose.

Whoso killeth another person

Pastor: ...Will be banished from the Kingdom of heaven

For all eternity.

And, basically, He blows bud frazer's head off.

In fact, They say that the body's

Still sitting in the chair.

And bud frazer is no longer A thorn in jim miller's side.

Hope I didn't disturb anyone.

Next round's on me.

And then, jim miller left The saloon

Calmly, cooly, collectedly, As if nothing had happened.

This is the fate That awaits the man

Who taketh Another man's life...

...Hellfire and brimstone, Eternal damnation.

¶

Fine sermon today, Pastor.

A lot to think about.

Miller: Bud frazer actually did me A favor.

Gave me a license to kill him.

After he gunned me down,

No jury in the world Would've convicted me.

It was a clear case Of self-defense.

So miller goes to a trial For this, and he's acquitted.

The judge said That frazer's done far worse

Than what miller did.

O'neal: and so killing jim Got off scot-free from that

As he did everything else.

Ah, the good old days.

[ chuckles ]

Miller: I had beaten Another murder charge,

But I'd pretty much worn out My welcome in pecos.

Boardman: for most of the time When he was living in pecos,

People believed jim miller Was a good guy.

They believed That he was honest and upright.

He was a wonderful member Of the methodist church.

¶ with my soul

But after the trial For the murder of bud frazer,

Although he was acquitted,

He found that he was no longer That popular in pecos,

And decided to move on.

Miller: It was after we left pecos

And moved east To a little town near fort worth

That I realized I could make a career

Out of what I do best As a killer for hire.

Wasn't long before I had All the business I could handle.

Miller: me and the boys got away With an awful lot in pecos.

But killing bud frazer Was the last straw.

I'd worn out my welcome.

So I moved sally And our four wonderful children

To fort worth,

Where I got a fresh start As a killer for hire.

It was known around fort worth That miller was a hired killer.

You could hire him To kill just about anybody.

You want somebody dead, Jim miller's the man you go to.

Miller: Now, it was good for me.

The people knew What I did for a living.

So I started to spread around That I was open for business.

And before I knew it, I had a dozen contracts.

There was a do-good lawyer

Making trouble For some rich ranchers...

...And all the small farmers And homesteaders I could handle.

I started charging $50 per job.

That number just kept Getting higher and higher.

As you gentlemen well know, I was soon getting top dollar.

O'neal: at first, he got a fee Of 50 bucks for killing people.

For a while, he was known To kill people for 150 bucks.

And ultimately, He was paid $2,000.

For him, It was more than an occupation.

I think it was a recreation.

It was something he enjoyed.

Not just the killing, The planning part of it.

It challenged him.

The fact That he could get away with it

And thumb his nose at the Authorities,

He loved all of that.

It made him feel even more Superior than he felt already.

Jim miller Was the perfect contract killer.

No matter how many times They tried,

They could never convict me Of killing a man.

Boggs: by this point,

Jim miller's thinking that He's pretty much invincible.

I mean, he can start bragging About killing people,

And no one's gonna do Anything about it.

If he's charged, He's gonna get off

On a technicality Or an acquittal.

Boardman: As time went on in fort worth,

Jim miller just continued To live the high life,

Wearing the absolute finest Of clothes.

So at this point,

He was starting to give up This clean image.

He didn't need it anymore.

People were too scared of him.

They weren't going to do Anything against him.

So why not drop the facade And just be who he was?

Miller: there are lots of ways To get away with murder.

Paying witnesses to lie for me

Was part of the cost Of doing business.

I'd always give them That option first.

If they refused, I'd have to get rid of them.

Gomber: a lot of the witnesses Against miller

Either decided that they hadn't Seen anything

And didn't know anything,

Or they simply disappeared From the planet.

But only one witness Ever agreed to lie

And then double-crossed me.

So the testimony you gave In that case against jim miller

Was false.

That's right.

Jim miller paid me to lie.

Miller: I paid joe earp a lot of money To lie on the witness stand.

And he was so bad at it He got caught

And then proceeded to tell The prosecutor everything.

Joe earp was caught in a lie, And he was gonna go to jail.

What he did was he turned State's evidence on jim miller.

Uh-oh. You don't do that.

You don't turn on jim miller.

Boggs: And then, miller tells people, "Read the paper, boys.

You'll learn Joe earp is dead."

And joe earp is soon dead.

Miller: And then, there was that damn Prosecutor who flipped joe earp.

He must've been out To make a name for himself

By putting jim miller in jail Any way he could.

So when he couldn't get me On a murder charge,

He charged me with perjury.

According to his autopsy,

He died of some disease With a long name

After eating In a fancy restaurant one night.

And wouldn't you know it?

A friend of mine worked in The kitchen at that restaurant.

Once the prosecutor And his star witness were dead,

That case went away, too.

I was making more For one murder

Than most folks make In a year.

Then, I got hired To kill pat garrett.

That changed everything.

You'll no doubt remember garrett

For his cowardly killing Of billy the kid.

Ho.

There are lots of stories

About what really happened To him that day.

But I guess I'm the only one Who can tell it true.

One thing's for sure -- He was dead by the end of it.

Garrett was always dead broke.

Poker, mostly.

So he desperately needed The money

When he leased some land He owned

To a guy named wayne brazel.

He just had no idea it was A setup from the start.

Ho.

Just a minute, brazel.

Nature calls.

He gets off the buckboard And he's unzipped his fly

And he's urinating On the side of the road.

[ gunshot ]

Boggs: everyone's got a theory On who killed pat garrett.

Probably the least likely person To have killed pat garrett

Is the person who actually Confessed to doing it.

So you're saying He drew on you first.

But he's shot In the back of the head.

Miller: brazel told the sheriff That garrett flew into a rage

And grabbed for his gun.

I had no choice.

It was gonna be him or me.

But the truth is wayne brazel Was paid to confess,

Knowing he'd get off On self-defense.

Wayne brazel's story was, "Pat garrett threatened me.

Pat garrett was going to kill me Right then and there.

I had to shoot him."

How could a man be threatening To kill somebody else

When the guy making the threat Was relieving himself?

Bell: it's the only time In the history of the west

That a person was urinating

That someone got off On self-defense.

[ chuckling ] So that's A weird story to begin with.

But there is every indication

That wayne brazel Was just the patsy in this

And that a hired killer Was brought in

And that it was jim miller.

Someone went out to the site A couple days later

And found a couple Of half-smoked cigarettes

And shell casings from the rifle That jim miller liked to use.

That's pretty compelling.

Miller: The evidence didn't matter.

Wayne brazel was acquitted On self-defense,

Just the way it was planned,

And nobody would ever know For sure

Who killed the lawman Who killed billy the kid.

Done right, murder should be The perfect crime

With never enough evidence To convict anybody.

A smart killer should walk away From every murder trial

A free man.

When I went to jail for another Routine job in oklahoma,

I had gotten away with every Murder I'd ever committed.

Except this time, it wasn't the Law I had to be worried about.

Bell: well, live by the sword, Die by the sword.

And seems as if the spit in the Sky comes back,

And this is One of those stories

Where, at least in my mind, It has a happy ending.

I can kill anybody And get away with it.

Gus bobbitt was no different From any of the rest of them.

Miller: I knew bobbitt Was making trouble

For a lot of the rich ranchers Around ada, oklahoma.

What I didn't know Was that he was a hero

To the rest of the town.

Gus bobbitt was one of the most Outstanding lawmen

Of the old west.

Boardman: The people who are law-abiding Just loved him.

People on the other side Of the law did not.

Roth: the cattlemen decided To go hire jim miller

To get rid of bobbitt.

[ woman screams ]

Augustus!

[ gasps ]

Oh, no!

No!

O'neal: The wife comes out, cradles Her dying husband in her arms.

Augustus.

Now, everybody knew Who killed him,

And everybody found out Pretty quickly who hired him.

Roth: miller, who's usually Very careful and cautious,

Had kind of thrown any type of Care to the wind

In this particular episode

It almost seemed like He felt he was too invincible.

And he made A number of mistakes.

Lindsey: Miller had become very careless And overconfident.

He just thought He could beat anything.

Boardman: But the situation in ada

Was particularly bad For jim miller at that time

Because gus bobbitt Was an upstanding citizen.

He'd been a protector of people.

And he was dead.

Miller is tracked down And is accused of the crime.

They arrest him.

Gomber: He was then thrown in jail.

And as usual, he was gonna await Judicial hearing

And get himself off Just like he was used to doing.

I've never been in jail In oklahoma before.

They're all pretty much The same.

Boggs: They don't just land miller.

They get his accomplice.

They get the people that hired Him to kill bobbit.

And they all wind up in jail.

Miller: I had to figure this case Was just like all the rest.

This would all be over Soon enough.

It was the only time I was ever wrong.

¶

Enough is enough, my friends. Man: that's right.

We can't let more killers Go free in our town.

We have to protect our families And see that justice is served!

Yes! Let's do it.

Let's go. I want to see them hanged.

Let's go. Let's go.

Roth: The local population,

They're convinced that This is gonna be a hung jury

Not to make a pun.

Boardman: there were rumors That miller and company

Were going to hire A man named moman pruiett.

And moman pruiett was The best defense attorney

In the southwest.

And if moman pruiett Was brought in,

Chances were those guys Were gonna get off.

Lindsey: There had just been an acquittal

Of the killer of a lawman At norman, oklahoma.

This all contributed To the citizens believed

The only way for justice

Would be to take it Into their own hands.

What the hell?

I want to see them hanged. Right now!

Let's go, gentlemen.

Tonight, Justice will be served.

Lindsey: they demanded the keys To the cells.

And the prisoners, With the exception of miller,

They began begging For their lives.

Miller seemed To just take it all in stride.

The psychopath Is basically fearless.

Boggs: so they haul all four Of the prisoners

Out to this abandoned Livery stable.

They string up The first three.

And then, It's jim miller's time to go.

Let the record show I killed 51 men.

Roth: And they save miller for last

'cause they want him To do some confessing.

He took off his diamond ring

And asked somebody To get it to his wife.

Let's get on with this. Suits me.

Put my hat back on, And put it on straight.

I'd hate to face eternity With my hat on crooked.

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Lindsey: Miller was a calm, cool, And collected individual,

Even in the face of death.

You're time's come, killer.

What kind of guy is that cool And calm as he's about to die?

Jim miller had no fear,

Even as that rope Was put around his neck.

Okay, gentlemen.

Let it rip.

[ chokes ]

His passing Was an impressive one

For a lynching,

And he was almost In charge of it himself.

He kicked the stool out From under himself

And went to his reward.

Boggs: I guess you couldn't kill Jim miller.

It took jim miller To kill jim miller.

Gomber: well, They buried miller facedown,

Because that was undoubtedly The direction he was going.

Straight to hell. [ sniffles ]