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DAVID ROSE VIOLATION JUSTICE, RACE AND SERIAL MURDER IN THE DEEP SOUTH
For my mother, Susan, who gave me a sense of historyAnd my father, Michael, who taught me the meaning of justice
CONTENTS
12 Southern Justice and the Stocking Stranglings
Strangling Crime Scenes
1 Ferne Jackson (17th Street) 2 Florence Scheible (Dimon Street/Eberhart Avenue) 3 Jean Dimenstein (21st Street) 4 Martha Thurmond (Marion Street) 5 Kathleen Woodruff (Buena Vista Road) 6 Ruth Schwob (Carter Avenue) 7 Mildred Borom (Forest Avenue) 8 Janet Cofer (Steam Mill Road) 9 Callye East’s house – Henry Sanderson’s gun stolen (Eberhart Avenue) 10 Gertrude Miller – survived first attack by strangler (Hood Street)
Other Locations
11 Historic District 12 Big Eddy Club 13 Lynching of Teasy McElhaney 1912 14 Lynching of Simon Adams 1900 15 Carlton Gary’s apartment 1977–79 16 Fort Benning 17 Area of Land family holdings 1900–20 18 G.W. Ashburn murdered 1868 19 Dr Thomas H. Brewer murdered 1956 Way down in Columbus, Georgia Want to be back in Tennessee Way down in Columbus Stockade Friends have turned their backs on me. Last night as I lay sleeping I was dreaming you were in my arms Then I found I was mistaken I was peeping through the bars. ‘Columbus Stockade Blues’ (traditional) ‘We don’t take just anybody as a member,’ said Daniel Senne, the Big Eddy Club’s general manager. ‘They have to be known to the community. It’s not a question of money, but of standing, morality, personality. And they must be people who conduct themselves well in business. Integrity is important.’ We were talking in the hush of the club’s sumptuous lounge, perched on deep sofas, our feet on a Turkoman rug, surrounded by antiques. With the seasons on the turn from winter to spring, the huge stone fireplace was not in use, but there was no need yet for air-conditioning. From the oak-vaulted dining room next door came the muffled clink of staff laying tables for lunch: silver cutlery, three goblets at every setting, and crisply starched napery. The club’s broad windows provided a backdrop of uninterrupted calm. Framed by pines that filtered the sunlight, a pair of geese glided across the state line, making barely a ripple. Behind them, across a mile of open water, lay the smoky outline of the Alabama hills. The minutes of the club’s founding meeting were framed on the wall, a single typed folio dated 17 May 1920. On that day, ten of the most prominent citizens of Columbus, Georgia, led by the textile baron Gunby Jordan II, had formed
