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The guns of Meeting Street : a Southern tragedy / T. Felder Dorn.
Van Pelt Library HV6534.E33 D67 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dorn, T. Felder.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--South Carolina--Edgefield County.
- Murder.
- Vendetta--South Carolina--Edgefield County.
- Vendetta.
- Trials (Murder)--South Carolina--Edgefield County.
- Trials (Murder).
- Executions and executioners--South Carolina--Edgefield County.
- Executions and executioners.
- Logue family.
- Timmerman family.
- South Carolina--Edgefield County.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- The Logue-Timmerman Case: A Chronology vii
- Genealogy of the Logue, Timmerman, and Walton Families ix
- Part I The Setting and a Murder: September 1941 1
- 1. Edgefield County, Seat of History 3
- 2. The Shooting at Timmerman's Store 7
- Part II Roots: Family, Community, and Mores, 1800-1940 15
- 3. The Families of Meeting Street 17
- 4. A Legacy of Violence 40
- 5. A Desire to Serve: Sue Stidham Logue 51
- 6. A Policeman with Promise: Joe Frank Logue 60
- 7. Families at Odds: The Tragedy Begins 65
- Part III Solution and Tragedy: September-November 1941 81
- 8. The Investigation: Who Killed Davis Timmerman? 83
- 9. The Guns of Sunday: The Violence Continues, 16 November 1941 108
- Part IV The Trial of Three Defendants: Lexington, January 1942 145
- 10. Preliminaries at Edgefield 147
- 11. People and Proceedings 150
- 12. The Case Against George and Sue 162
- 13. Clarence Bagwell: A Quest for Mercy 182
- 14. The Defense of George and Sue 193
- 15. Verdict 225
- Part V The Road to the Electric Chair: January 1942-January 1943 233
- 16. The Stansfield Appeals 235
- 17. The Penitentiary for Women 249
- 18. Death by Electrocution 253
- Part VI Joe Frank in the Legal System: 1942-1960 261
- 19. The Edgefield Trial 263
- 20. The Nicholson Appeals 297
- 21. Prison and Parole 307
- Part VII Afterthoughts and Aftermath: 1960-2000 319
- 22. The Elusive Truth 321
- 23. Personae in the Legal Drama 325
- 24. The Logues and the Timmermans 333.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-380) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1570034257
- OCLC:
- 46769340
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