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The Friendly Farmer

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Shelby McDowell

The night that twin brothers Claude and Clarence McKinley wrecked their car on Henderson Road, a friendly farmer who lived along the road warned bootleggers that the police were further up the road clearing the wreck. That friendly farmer was Shelby McDowell, who would later become sheriff of Vanderburgh County.

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