position was, some cyclops, a grand titan, or some klan-related rank that he held. he was very volatile, very angry, very strange behavior. bennie hays was a paradox, grandfatherly with a cane but capable of sudden outbursts of anger. take it off me, son of a bitch. get it off. bennie jack was a terrible man, and i don t like speaking ill of the dead, but he was pure evil. and he was coming up herndon avenue, fussing and raising cane, talking about i own all these houses. what the blank you doing keeping me from coming to my properties? he was just loud-mouthing. i think there are certain parts of mobile that feared him all the way to his death. they knew that it was the klan.