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William Preston Longley
Never one to be unarmed, Bill Longley killed his first man in Austin County, Texas, when the soon-to-be gunman was 15 years old. Six feet tall, Longley was a racist and picked many a fight with Yankee sympathizers and carpetbaggers. He had a continuing feud with Wilson Anderson, the result being Anderson’s death. While waiting for the hangman’s noose to end his life for the killing of Anderson, Longley wrote a letter to the Texas governor asking why John Wesley Hardin only received 25 years in jail for forty killings while Longley received the death penalty for 30 killings. No reply came from the governor and Longley was executed in Giddings, Texas, 11 October, 1878. He was 27 years of age.