Unnamed Sheriff 12

Character Key Number: 
783
Display Name: 
Unnamed Sheriff 12
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Unnamed Sheriff 12
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In both versions of "Go Down, Moses" - the short story and the chapter of that name in the novel Go Down, Moses - Gavin Stevens briefly considers consulting "the sheriff" for help locating Mollie Beauchamp's grandson. There are three 'sheriff's in the novel, two unnamed ones (in "The Fire and the Hearth" and "Go Down, Moses"), and Sheriff Maydew in "Pantaloon in Black." They are essentially contemporaneous, but the text does not suggest any connection between any of them - so we have created three separate "Sheriff" entries.