In all of his days, Vincent Barlow had never seen anything like the events of that hot July night in 1949. Barlow, a resident of sparsely populated Chocolate Bayou Road in Houston, recalled that he was standing on his porch when he saw a black Cadillac driving fast, with a dark sedan in apparent pursuit. As they closed within 100 yards of his house, the Cadillac slowed down and eased over to the side of the road, as if to let the trailing car pass. As the sedan overtook the Cadillac, Barlow said, he heard two shotgun blasts in rapid succession.

The second car drove off. The Cadillac rolled to a stop on the side of the road, its engine running, its lights illuminating the sticky Gulf Coast night. When he investigated, Barlow saw a middle-aged man lying prostrate across the seat.

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