Man I Never Met

John Alexander Yeager received signed notice from a gentleman named Will Purvis who gave Yeager the rights plus $1.00 to write the story of his life. Shall We Hang This Boy Twice? was published and serialized in the New Orleans Item in 1920. It told of the arrest, trial, conviction, and death sentence carried out by the State of Mississippi for a crime that Purvis did not commit. But Purvis escaped the gallows without injury. It was the first case in American criminology of its kind. Now, over 80 years later, Phillip Wolf and PublishAmerica team up to republish Wolf's great-grandfather's manuscript. Wolf researches Yeager's past and the city of Lumberton, a small town in Mississippi with a huge history. Pictures out of the past accompany The Man I Never Met that may revive the memories of older generations and astonish the younger era. Learn the true story of Will Purvis.Wolf, Phillip is the author of 'Man I Never Met ', published 2004 under ISBN 9781413711424 and ISBN 1413711421.