Over the years, McCall would be accused, implicated, or indicted in dozens of cases of prisoners dying under suspicious circumstances while in his custody. He patrolled the colored section in his ten-gallon hat, interrogating and pistol-whipping colored men for any suspicion and putting colored fruit pickers in jail if he caught them not working on a Saturday. The colored people of Eustis and the rest of Lake County lived in fear of his patrol car crawling through their gravel streets. “Here come the Big Hat Man,” the people would say when they saw him approaching.
