Appalachian crime Archives - Page 2 of 14

The day they hung Murderous Mary the elephant

On September 13, 1916 a five-ton circus elephant was executed, hung from a 100-ton Clinchfield railroad crane car, in the little town of Erwin, TN.

It wasn’t possible to return prisoners doing work in the most distant parts of Oconee County to the county jail at Walhalla every night.

The Commonwealths had run away for dealing in Bogus Land Business, and Jim Thomas was never indicted for killing the two men.

On July 1, 1915, statewide prohibition went into effect in Alabama, for the second time, five years before the federal prohibition amendment.

As he rode into exile Old Man Lige Wright thanked God that those enemies from behind had knocked him senseless with his own gun.

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