Harmon Murray Escapes Again: Another Deadly Exploit from Northern Florida’s Boogeyman

Image from a newspaper article titled “Frontier without law was Florida before turn of the century.” Tampa Bay Times Sun, May 26, 1957 ·Page 139, retrieved from Newspapers.com.

By cover of darkness, the posse cautiously approached a house on 10th Street, Fernandina Beach, Florida. There were ten of them and only one of their prey, but not one among them could break his nervous gaze from the house.

The lone renegade rumored to be inside was no ordinary outlaw — he was Harmon Murray, and his…