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Eustis was a slave at Mimosa, owned by the Fontaine family. He broke into Mimosa and scared (or insulted, as is claimed by people who weren't there) his former master's wife, 'Sally Munroe. Her brother-in-law, Tony Fontaine then killed him, and rode on to kill Jonas Wilkerson as well. Alex escaped prosecution through his connections with the Ku Klux Klan and fled to Texas.

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