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Show page 198 STOCKADE Lovett McFall dropped out of our consolidated high school while in the tenth grade and joined the Army. He received basic training and was sent overseas and had many hair-raising experiences. Eventually he was t r i e d for murder and received a death sentence in a court martial. After several months' confinement overseas,McFall was returned to the States, to the stockade at Fort Benning, Georgia, a large Army post not too far from our town. The stockade at Benning at t h i s time was a tough part of the vast, sprawling post. There was a double barbwire fence with a wooden guard tower at each of the four corners. A long, low office building sat inside the fence near the front gate. Behind the office building were .several two-story barracks, a showerhouse with a b o i l e r room on one end and a laundry on the other, and a messhall. A man named Thompson was in the stockade when McFall arrived. Thompson was of medium height, tanned and muscular, with calm blue eyes and short cropped hair. Military police brought McFall in during the night, after taps. The next morning t a l k circulated in the l a t r i n e where Thompson and others were washing up for chow. "The guy was handcuffed and chained. He's a 92nd Article of War. He's going to hang unless he gets a break at a new t r i a l . " |
