Some years ago I received a copy of an account written by Montfurt Hull of Baton Rouge describing his encounter with one of the most colorful men in south Louisiana. The man was George Armand (Bedon) Martin, physician, legislator, three times mayor of Lafayette, its first Mardi Gras king, and its city judge from 1916 to 1932. When his 17-year-old son Stanley Martin became Lafayette’s first comba…