"THE HANGING OF WILLIAM FREEMAN"- George J. Mastin Panorama
THE WORD OF GOD, THE BARK OF A DOG
“Before quitting the scene of his brutal butchery, looking first in at one window, then at the other.”-George J Mastin Now we stand before the second canvas. Each canvas looks like a different sign painter tackled it. This artist’s hand is more skilled. It is an interior scene, the dying young George, the baby is draped in his sister’s arms. Streams of red paint run down his creamy white bedclothes. His head is gently cradled,(Christ like) by Helen Holmes, standing safely behind the locked raised panel door. Julia and Helen’s eyes implore each other, over John Van Nest’s body propped against the wall. For the moment they are safe. But wait! Bill’s still there, LOOK! Behind the window- again the racist, rolling white, google eyes, and obscene grin, luridly intruding into the room, seeking more victims, phallic spear raised…… Helen Holmes (victim) sworn: “I was at the house of John G. Van Nest the night when he and his wife and child were murdered. I had
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