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A criminal clan

FROM ‘THE NOTORIOUS ASHLEY GANG’ BY HIX. C. STUART

The killing of Seminole DeSoto Tiger thrusts pioneering Ashley family on wrong side of law

BY GREGORY ENNS

DeSoto Tiger was father of a 3-month-old baby and 5-year-old when he was killed and robbed of otter pelts by John Ashley in December 1911
DeSoto Tiger was father of a 3-month-old baby and 5-year-old when he was killed and robbed of otter pelts by John Ashley in December 1911.

A quarter mile off Old Dixie Highway, in what is now southern Martin County, 63-year-old Lugenia Ashley walked from her whitewashed home along a sandy trail of pine trees and palmetto brush. The trail brought her to a makeshift cemetery, where she could reflect on the loss of nearly half her family members.

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