THE WOOLFOLK TRAGEDY The murders, the trials, the hanging, and now, finally the truth

Softcover. SIGNED. Before sunrise on August 6, 1887, a respected gentleman farmer, Captain Richard F. Woolfolk, was savagely murdered along with his wife, their six children, and his wife's 84yr old great aunt. At day break, local authorities, crippled by mass hysteria, made an arrest. The state of Georgia abruptly awakened itself from its simmering post Civil War stupor and amid rampant yellow journalism, unfounded rumours, prejudice, lies, and blatant confessions, struggled to prove the one survivor of that tragic night, Thomas G. Woolfolk, the Captain's eldest son, to be the lone axe murderer. Tom's fate placed him in the turbulent epicentre of the South's racial, moral, social, political, and economic tempest. Unconvinced of Woolfolk's guilt, a single reporter was determined to search out the truth while a valiant attorney courageously fought the prejudiced system for the sake of justice. In the end they all went to their deaths carrying the burden of the Woolfolk tragedy on their shoulders. This is their story. Illus., Bibliog. and Epilogue. 381pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. V. sl. patchy fading to fr. cover o/w Nr. F.