Hello Dreamers and welcome back to the show. I want to thank you so much for your

patience with me in recent weeks. Because of time running out last week and this

week I had a trip to California. I am getting used to this new computer

that I have and everything. So I've decided to postpone episode 162 which is

about half written and I'm going to write and record this bonus instead.

And all bonus means usually is that it might not be as long.

These are typically stories that perhaps don't have that much detail or information that can be found online.

The story might be older or it may be breaking news, brand new stuff, and sometimes when these stories are unsolved because there's no

trial or no resolution to the story, then yeah, I make those types of things into bonuses. So this is one of those stories that's older. It

begins before the American Civil War. There is a decent amount of information

online despite that, but it has a mysterious ending. So let's get into

this bonus episode of California Dreaming, The Tale of Ambrose Biers. A man stood upon a railroad bridge in Northern Alabama looking down into the swift water

20 feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was

attached to a stout cross timber above his head, and the slack fell to the level of his knees.

Some of the loose boards laid upon the sleepers supporting the metals of the railway

supplied a footing for him and his executioners.

Two private soldiers of the Federal Army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff.

At a short move upon the same temporary platform was an officer in the uniform of his rank,

armed.

He was a captain.

A sentinel at each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as support. That is to say

vertical in front of the left shoulder, the hammer resting on the forearm thrown

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