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POPEYE = 40 offices were in Willie's house and Popeye returned to fight over records and money. He had a gun, and Willie got pistol whipped. Pat: "Willie had a. 104° temperature and hepatitis... Even then... no one seemed to be scared. I mean, there's that fear of a gun; it's loaded, you don't know what will happen. But he was more scared than we were, he was shaking...". Sister Sheila worked in the union and was living with Tony; she was scared: "I was ushered out of the room by Willie and Tony because they were afraid there was going to be some kind of a violent trip. Popeye came back in, and he was... screaming and yelling: "You white mother fuckers! He was threatening them, saying he was going to kill them... He came back with a gun and threatened to kill John and Tony and he hit Willie with the gun... I was so frenked out by the gun that I don't know too much what happened after that. '' Popeye almost lost his life then. Sheila: "After all this happens, Willie and John and Tony and the women in the union... were talking about what to do and Joe f . saying: 'We got to get him before he gets us', but John's position was: '.,.he‘ll hang himself. He's going to run around bad rapping us... calling us racists... but, there's nothing we can do about it... What we're doing is representing convicts and if we run out and start a fang war... then we've blown our whole trip... We can't do that; this is not the big yard'.'"' Tony and-fff tie wore voted down. The PU adopted a policy of silence and would not discuss the split or the violence until after Popeye's death. Popeye and the UPU adopted a policy of bad-rap and accused Willie and John of being snitches and the PU of being racist.