Unnamed Sheriff 9

Character Key Number: 
775
Display Name: 
Unnamed Sheriff 9
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Unnamed Sheriff 9
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

The antebellum "sheriff of the county" who leads the "posse" that follows and then arrests Sutpen on suspicion of having committed some kind of crime (34, 35) in Absalom! is probably not Major de Spain, who is the county sheriff in the years immediately following the Civil War.

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