I Saw Three People Die in the Electric Chair, or, The End of One of South Carolina's Bloody Feuds. Pamphlet.
Nashville, Tenn: 1943. A bloody South Carolina feud between the Timmerman and Logue families which began over a mule kicking a prize calf, and ended with 8 people dead, including the sheriff and his deputy, and with Strom Thurmond as the presiding judge. The essence of the case is that Sue and George Logue hired a man called Clarence Bagwell to kill Davis Timmerman, which assignment Bagwell completed for $500; ultimately Bagwell and the Logues were tried and sentenced to the electric chair.
The case was brought before Strom Thurmond, at the time the local judge, because of the killings of the sheriff and deputy. The trial venue had to be moved because the Logues had so many relatives in the county everybody knew them, and also because Strom Thurmond had been having a long term affair with Sue Logue. This was prior to Thurmond's political career as a segregationist presidential candidate.
This is the account of the local evangelist W. Roy Stewart, who was the pastor at Langley South Carolina at the time of the feud. He visited the accused at the South Carolina State Penitentiary at the "death house" in January 1943. Stewart writes a detailed account of the case, and recounts praying and talking with the condemned, their thoughts in their last hours, and their executions. He enumerates five lessons he learned from the experience, including "the wages of sin is death" and "how the devil can deceive and lead people".
Small 8vo, frontispiece portrait of Stewart, 42pp. OCLC: 11394106 records 3 libraries with copies. Very good condition. Item #21691
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