Author: [EPHEMERA] [RELIGION] [BILL MILL] [RELIGIOUS CONVERSIONS]
Title: See and Hear Ex-Outlaw from Texas in Person a Program on Prevention of Adult and Juvenile Delinquency
Description: Modesto, CA: Foursquare Church, 1955. Other. This is a handbill (one sheet of paper 7" x 15 1/2") with text only on the obverse. The handbill is in Very Good condition, and has been folded three times. The time and place of the talk has been handwritten. Bill Mills was a convict who had spent 25 years behind bars "after being tried and convicted on 32 different crimes in Texas and Oklahoma". "In 1910, at age 17, Mills was arrested and convicted in Hunt County for the theft of a horse and sentenced to two years in prison. As Texas Inmate #37538 he was sent to the Burleson and John Farm on the Brazos River. It was there that he was introduced to the brutal reality of forced labor. His first encounter was the use of the bat." (the Fort Bend Star, August 14, 2018). Very Good .

Keywords: Ephemera Religion Bill Mills Texas Ex-convicts Religious Conversion Juvenile Delinquency


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