Research Catalog

Title

Wicked Beaufort / Alexia Jones Helsley.

Author

Helsley, Alexia Jones.

Publication

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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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