The Guns of Meeting Street
Subtitle: A Southern Tragedy
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781570034251
Subjects: True Crime; United States - State & Local - South; South Carolina - Local History; Murder; Social Science; True Crime / Espionage; United States - State & Local - General; South Carolina; Trials (Murder); Murder - General; Vendetta; Criminology; Edgefield County
First sentence: A sense of history is pervasive in Edgefield, South Carolina.
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.