Around the turn of the 20th century a man charged with murder escaped from the Scott County, Virginia, jail and headed to Texas. He likely would have spent the rest of his life there but for an accident.

A real accident, involving a train.

Today we tell the story of a man whose demand for justice from the railroad company led to his own reckoning back home.

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