skeleton-in-the-closet

Updated: June 20, 2025

This result was hastened by Patty Cannon's death, which happened, to the great relief of many respectably considered people in that region, who had feared from the first that she would make a minute confession, implicating everybody who had dealt with her band. Among these was Judge Custis, who opened his skeleton-in-the-closet to John M. Clayton one spring-like day.

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times