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Sunday, August 23rd 1875
DOES TWISTING THAT MAKE SPIT COME OUT?
By R. Wragg
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Trains arrived at the station from all over the state, discharging the great and the good, including a Senator and the State Governor.
Crowds gathered in front of some pretty menacing looking gallows.
All were dressed in their finest clothes.
All save one.
Standing on the gallows, stark naked, was a beautiful, terrified, and very, very angry Messaline (above, and she does indeed look marvellous!).
According to justice in this corner of Missouri, Messaline has to hang. No-one is completely sure why, except The Hanging Tree. Something to do with an unlicensed business....
And the Hanging Tree it was who discovered a new use for her right nipple. He gave it a none-too-gentle twist, and received a face full of gobo for his trouble.
The Crux Chronicle passes this on in the hope of educating its readers.
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