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    The Guns of Meeting Street: A Southern Tragedy

    By T. Felder Dorn

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    An engrossing investigation into the deadly outcome of a sixteen-year family feud

    As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of murders from the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina. Featuring a cast of unlikely antagonists—a prominent store owner, an elementary school teacher, and a law enforcement officer—the acts of revenge resulted in five murders and a trio of executions, including that of the first woman to be electrocuted in South Carolina.

    Through interviews with members of the two families involved, T. Felder Dorn probes the longstanding feud between the Logues and the Timmermans to uncover this chilling plot of resentment, revenge, and violence. Dorn's careful research weaves together the oral history of family members affected by the shooting with court transcripts, prisoner confessions, and coroners' reports to produce a truly gripping account of the events.

    Although most of the deaths took place between 1940 and 1943, the roots of this tragedy can be traced back to killings that occurred in the Meeting Street community in the 1920s. The story climaxes on January 15, 1943, with the execution, within a single hour, of Sue Stidham Logue, George Logue, and Clarence Bagwell for the murder of Davis Timmerman. Dorn's saga concludes with the 1960 parole and rehabilitation of Joe Frank Logue Jr., the only one of Timmerman's killers to escape capital punishment.

    Not for the faint of heart, The Guns of Meeting Street details the circumstances and motivations for the killings, the complexities of the court cases, and the involvement in the proceedings of South Carolina governors Richard Manning Jefferies, Olin D. Johnston, and J. Strom Thurmond.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
    Release dateFeb 17, 2020
    ISBN9781643361093
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    T. Felder Dorn

    Felder Dorn is the author of two books published by the University of South Carolina Press: The Guns of Meeting Street: A Southern Tragedy (2001), and Challenges on the Emmaus Road (in press), about the role of Episcopal Bishops in the Civil War era. A native of South Carolina, Dr. Dorn’s professional career included service on the chemistry faculties of The University of the South in Sewanee, TN, and Kean University in Union, NJ, as well as serving as a dean and vice president at Kean.

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