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I had the best of all possible razings from the bookies to the

sharks, to the card sharks, poo sharks. I learned more about human nature than any

kid could and any school left and all the guys were good to the kid and trusted the kid

and they talked around the kid. They went and talked about murder or bank robbers don't talk

about that but the kid heard that stuff. By the time he was in his early 30s,

Billy's Sunday Burke had become one of the most powerful and most feared men in Georgia.

As the end of the 1960s was approaching, he was a partner in the bootleg business with

Ruth and Harold Chansey and he was the official enforcer and hitman for the newly formed Diximofia.

And he operated a pool hall called the Winder Recreation Parlor at 63 Athens Street

which served as a front for his illegal gambling and was a safe haven to plan his contract,

arson, robbery and murder jobs. Young Stoney was now along for the ride and had a front

row seat to the inner workings of his dad's booming business. He made a thousand and fifteen a week

just on poo hall running it normally which was ten to fifteen thousand a week now

in many ways. A dime was still silver. And he kept a card game going day and night

which he always won so he probably won double that on the card games.

And it was just kind of like a carnival. It was exciting and I was privy to that

it's hard to explain. Not that they included me and made it the point let me hear it

but it was when you're overhearing and seeing the next day of the day before

it went to puzzle. If it was a puzzle it was a ten piece puzzle.

From imperative entertainment this is in the red clay.

Though the men tried not to be too blatantly obvious in their conversations,

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