--- On Tue, 12/16/08, ALBERT TURLEY <albert.turley@sbcglobal.net> wrote: From: ALBERT TURLEY <albert.turley@sbcglobal.net> Subject: watt's ? sheriff St Francois County To: bwmerrhuntgenes@sbcglobal.net Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 7:24 PM To whom it may concern:   I AM A RETIRED DEPUTY SHERIFF OF ST FRANCOIS COUNTY AND RE-SEARCHED ALL SHERIFF'S OF ST FRANCOIS COUNTY FROM 1821 TO CURRENT DATE. YOU WROTE OF A SHERIFF WATTS. THIS WAS ABOUT 1924 THE SHERIFF RACE BETWEEN H.B. (BUD) WATTS AND SAM DOSS OF DESLOGE,MO. BUD WATTS WAS SUCCESSFUL IN HIS ELECTION AGAINST DOSS. FOR YOUR INFORMATION DOSS WAS MURDERED TWO YEARS AFTER  BUD WATTS ELECTION TO OFFICE. DOSS WAS SHOT IN HIS HOME AT DESLOGE IN THE FALL OF 1926. WATTS CHIEF DEPUTY WAS TAKING PAY-OFFS FROM BOOT-LEGGER'S SO THEY COULD HIDE THEIR STILLS WHEN REVENUERS CAME CALLING ON THE COUNTY. SHERIFF WATTS CHIEF DEPUTY WAS SENT TO PRISON ALONG WITH A MAN NAMED BOESEL. THEY PAID TO HAVE DOSS MURDERED. SHERIFF H.B.(BUD) WAS A ONE TERM SHERIFF. IN NEXT ELECTION A MAN BY THE NAME OF ROY PRESNELL WAS ELECTED (MY GREAT UNCLE).                                                                          RESPECTFULLY                                                                        RETIRED DEPUTY                                                                        AL TURLEY