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PAGE 22. Buxton. 
inhuman treatment; but the Indians got even with the White man for they gave him Venereal Disease and then presumely spread over most of the world.
I reminded Halley from what I had seem that she and London were planning to meet somewhere; have an affair to go to bed and if you do you have made the gross error of your life because London had Venereal Disease and everybody in this end of town knows about it. A few dozen of my friends with their underground and grape vine connections cannot be wrong. You are so love sick now that you think I am lieing but if you do and come into my room again I will bash your head in so it will not fit on to your neck anymore. 
On this night she said she was going to visit gertrude a friend and when she was not back by eleven o'clock I went to the place where she was supposed to have been visiting and she had not been there so I had an idea as to where she was and I had my cousin to watch this house to see if she and London would come out together which they did and it was almost two o'clock. It was the end of a beautiful friendship but she would have to go eventually; but to stay a few days to see what develops. No doubt about it in ten days it had manifested it self and claimed one more victim. I gave her ninety dollars which was more tham twice the fare to Virginia and told her not to return but she did three times and demised in 1945 at the age of 50. This man who had given her so much trouble had finished his medical course was now Dr. Hubert London and was the last Practicing Doctor in Buxton. Before her demi she went to him for treatment perhaps without any success. With the town gone he moved to DesMoines where he got an over supply of tickets for traffic violations. He would not cooperate with the Court so police were sent out to his house to bring him in. I will always believe that V. D. had upset his mental balance because he went into his garage and started shooting at the police and they shot back by returning his fire and as a result killed him in his garage at the age of thirty two; but he did write me an apologetic letter because that incident must have preyed on his mind for being a Doctor he must have felt guilty about infecting a human being but I had nothing to forgive on his part but for her it was different for she had been forwarned and never gave it the least consideration.. 
Gambling was the main object that caused so many men to enter Buxton at the end of each pay-day and the girls or women were attracted by the free flowing and abundance of money being circulated. I went to the Bank every monday after pay-day to get a Sight Draft to make payment on merchandise we had received and I had never noticed anybody making an investment or establishing a Saving account. The miners received excellent pay according to the economy at that time. The miners received excellent pay according to the economy at that time. In any event or manner the money flowed freely 
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PAGE 22. Buxton. inhuman treatment; but the Indians got even with the White man for they gave him Venereal Disease and then presumely spread over most of the world. I reminded Halley from what I had seem that she and London were planning to meet somewhere; have an affair to go to bed and if you do you have made the gross error of your life because London had Venereal Disease and everybody in this end of town knows about it. A few dozen of my friends with their underground and grape vine connections cannot be wrong. You are so love sick now that you think I am lieing but if you do and come into my room again I will bash your head in so it will not fit on to your neck anymore. On this night she said she was going to visit gertrude a friend and when she was not back by eleven o'clock I went to the place where she was supposed to have been visiting and she had not been there so I had an idea as to where she was and I had my cousin to watch this house to see if she and London would come out together which they did and it was almost two o'clock. It was the end of a beautiful friendship but she would have to go eventually; but to stay a few days to see what develops. No doubt about it in ten days it had manifested it self and claimed one more victim. I gave her ninety dollars which was more tham twice the fare to Virginia and told her not to return but she did three times and demised in 1945 at the age of 50. This man who had given her so much trouble had finished his medical course was now Dr. Hubert London and was the last Practicing Doctor in Buxton. Before her demi she went to him for treatment perhaps without any success. With the town gone he moved to DesMoines where he got an over supply of tickets for traffic violations. He would not cooperate with the Court so police were sent out to his house to bring him in. I will always believe that V. D. had upset his mental balance because he went into his garage and started shooting at the police and they shot back by returning his fire and as a result killed him in his garage at the age of thirty two; but he did write me an apologetic letter because that incident must have preyed on his mind for being a Doctor he must have felt guilty about infecting a human being but I had nothing to forgive on his part but for her it was different for she had been forwarned and never gave it the least consideration.. Gambling was the main object that caused so many men to enter Buxton at the end of each pay-day and the girls or women were attracted by the free flowing and abundance of money being circulated. I went to the Bank every monday after pay-day to get a Sight Draft to make payment on merchandise we had received and I had never noticed anybody making an investment or establishing a Saving account. The miners received excellent pay according to the economy at that time. The miners received excellent pay according to the economy at that time. In any event or manner the money flowed freely When they gambled by playing Chuckluck; three card monty or the shell gam