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Wicked Beaufort /
- Title
- Wicked Beaufort / Alexia Jones Helsley.
- Author
- Helsley, Alexia Jones.
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- 126 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Subject
- Beaufort (S.C.) > Anecdotes
- Beaufort (S.C.) > History > Anecdotes
- Beaufort (S.C.) > Social conditions > Anecdotes
- Beaufort County (S.C.) > History > Anecdotes
- Beaufort County (S.C.) > Social conditions > Anecdotes
- Corruption > Beaufort > History > Anecdotes
- Corruption > Beaufort County > History > Anecdotes
- Corruption
- Crime > Beaufort > History > Anecdotes
- Crime > Beaufort County > History > Anecdotes
- Crime
- Criminals > Beaufort > Anecdotes
- Criminals
- Social conditions
- South Carolina > Beaufort County
- South Carolina > Beaufort
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes.
- Biography – Anecdotes.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Something wicked this way comes -- Setting the scene -- Beautiful Beaufort -- "Written in blood" : LeChere, Seymour Burroughs, Mrs. Bull's shoes, Bloody Point, and the Huspa King -- "Judgment is mine" : Hugh Bryan writes a letter -- "Murder most foul" : Charles Purry meets a bad end -- "Wolf in sheep's clothing" : the Reverend Mr. William Peaseley -- "Live hard, die young" : James Booth and civilian life -- "Boys will be boys" : masculine entertainments -- "Wrong place at the wrong time" : the murder of J. Fraser Matthewes -- "Honor" among thieves : the Duncan-Froman affair -- Conflict of interest : the Bettison-Brown-Bailey triangle -- Chivalry, Beaufort style : Richard V. Bray and the Internal Revenue Service -- House of cards : Richardson and the banking scandal of 1928 -- Epilogue: And the beat goes on.
- ISBN
- 9781609492632
- 1609492633
- LCCN
- 2011012084
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library