The two civil rights workers served out their 3 month stint, then escaped Mississippi but the the black lady who befriended them had no such luck. In May of 1973 Mayor Fore and 4 other men caught Mrs. Daisy Savage and her 11 year old grandson fishing near Steele Bayou at the Yazoo Wildlife Refuge, a few miles outside of town. They stoned both of them to death with the rip rap limestone chunks that lined the banks, stuffed their bodies back into their car then pushed it into the bayou. No one was ever charged with these murders. This is the only public record that exists of it. Daisy was the finest and bravest woman in the entire town. She makes everyone else look like worms squirming in slime. Her murder at the hands of those nauseating criminals is a permanent blot on the character of every white person in Mississippi (including myself, which I resent) and especially all white officials. Her relations still live there, in a state of sorrow, bereavement, fear, and confusion desperately seeking some kind of closure to that miserable chapter in their lives. Some of the murderers who killed her are still walking the streets in blithe ecstasy. There seems little hope that anyone will ever do anything to apologize for or rectify what those sub-humans did to her.
Mayor Fore was also an accomplished arsonist. He owned the only ice plant in Hollandale and ice was a new-found and valuable commodity in the hot Mississippi Delta. He burned that ice plant down, collected on the insurance and then started an ice-plant in nearby Glen Allen which he also burned down for the insurance. He then opened a third ice-plant which he also burned down and collected more insurance. After that, Mayor Fore could buy no more ice-plant insurance.
Mayor Fore was always detectable by sound, if not by sight, as his voice rang out above all others when they sang Bringing in the Sheaves in the choir at the First Baptist Church.
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