The Guns of Meeting Street

By T. Felder Dorn

Subjects: Trials (murder), Murder, south carolina, Executions and executioners, Vendetta, Trials (Murder), Murder

Description: "As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of sensational murders in the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina, and riveted the attention of the state on the county's Meeting Street community. Featuring an unlikely cast of antagonists - among them a prominent store owner, an elementary school teacher, and a Spartanburg law enforcement officer who hid in the getaway car while a hired gunman shot his enemy - the acts of revenge resulted in five murders. Another three people were put to death in the electric chair, including the first woman to be electrocuted in South Carolina.". "With the assistance of Rachel Timmerman Smith, John Wallace Logue, William Sebastian Logue, and Margie Timmerman Prince, T. Felder Dorn probes a feud between the Logue and Timmerman families to uncover a chilling story of misplaced revenge, social resentment, and violence. His research weaves together the oral history of family members affected by the shooting with court transcripts, affidavits, prisoner confessions, newspaper articles, and coroners' reports to produce a truly gripping account of the events."--BOOK JACKET.