Wicked Beaufort
By: Alexia Jones Helsley
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781609492632
Subjects: Criminals; Anecdotes; Social conditions; History; Corruption; Biography; Crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Something wicked this way comes; title: Setting the scene; title: Beautiful Beaufort; title: "Written in blood" : LeChere, Seymour Burroughs, Mrs. Bull's shoes, Bloody Point, and the Huspa King; title: "Judgment is mine" : Hugh Bryan writes a letter; title: "Murder most foul" : Charles Purry meets a bad end; title: "Wolf in sheep's clothing" : the Reverend Mr. William Peaseley; title: "Live hard, die young" : James Booth and civilian life; title: "Boys will be boys" : masculine entertainments; title: "Wrong place at the wrong time" : the murder of J. Fraser Matthewes; title: "Honor" among thieves : the Duncan-Froman affair; title: Conflict of interest : the Bettison-Brown-Bailey triangle; title: Chivalry, Beaufort style : Richard V. Bray and the Internal Revenue Service; title: House of cards : Richardson and the banking scandal of 1928; title: Epilogue: And the beat goes on.