Wheel Gator [Human Rights: writing a Profile based on pictures]

Henry Jackson Rosebud, also known as “Wheel Gator”, was born somewhere between 1870 and 1875, in New Orleans. His father was from South Dakota and his mother from La Paz, in Bolivia, and was illegaly deported for mine working. Both of them have only this biographical information. Henry spoke English with a Spanish accent; even with a caucasian body, he had indian skin.

In a place where nobody but rich white people had rights, Henry built his own house with every material he could find, from blocks of wood, to piles of ferryboat junk; and even with rattlesnakes and snapping turtles sleeping on his couch, he liked the little home he had made.

One day, the mayor of New Orleans was found dead, and his right arm, Jeremy Osmond, blamed the non-native people for killing him, so at least half of the city's non-native inhabitants were arrested, except for Henry. The community decided to hold new elections for a new mayor. Jeremy Osmond nominated himself, and proclaimed that if he were the new mayor, the policy would be the same, but with some exceptions; the other candidate was Oliver Graham Owl, who defended that every human being should have rights. Henry voted for Mr. Owl, but in 30 thousand inhabitants, 25 thousand voted for Osmond. 

On the day of the commemoration, Osmond and his friends had a party on his private ferryboat, but Henry, along with Mr. Owl and a couple of immigrants went to the ferryboat and ordered them to stop the party, to announce who was the guilty of the previous mayor: Osmond.

Mr. Owl had found a glass of arsenic on the mayor's yard, proving that he had been poisoned. Owl's helpers tried to attack Osmond, but his guards attacked them, thus giving place to a big fight on the boat. Henry found an opportunity to attack Osmond, so he pushed him to the ferryboat's turbins, the mayor fell onto the river, and the alligators finished the job, but at the same time, a helper of Osmond’s  headshot him.

The following day was a happy and a sad one. In the morning, a new mayor was elected and everybody on the town was commemorating; in the evening, a funeral happened, dedicated to Henry Jackson Rosebud, who won the nickname “Wheel Gator”, for being the bravest one on the  21^st  January 1908.

António Alves [12º5B]