Excerpt from The Entwined Lives of Miss. Gabrielle Austin, Daughter of the Late Rev. Ellis C. Austin, and of Redmond, the Outlaw, Leader of the North Carolina "Moonshiners" IT devolves upon me in these pages, to relate a most wonderful and remarkably interesting story of the trials and triumphs of a pure and virtuous maiden; and, in a desire to do justice to the character of a martyr to the injustice and cruelty of our laws, I shall confine myself strictly to truthful facts. In the arrangement of the incidents of this truly wonderful history, I have adhered closely to conservatism, and if the reader stands amazed at the fearfully dramatic character of the situations, it will go No prove that Ver1ly truth is stranger than fiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.