HANGED BY THE NECK UNTIL DEAD The Complete Story of the Only Legal Hanging in Barry County History

Softcover. The author, a resident of the area, was able to visit many eyewitnesses to the hanging of Edward Ferdinand Clum on April 15th, 1887, in the town of Cassville, Missouri. Clum had been found guilty of slaying 47yr old John J. White and 17yr old Ella Bowe with a double-barrel shotgun at the White Farm on Capps Creek in northwest Barry late in the evening of July 8th, 1886. This is the story of the events and characters involved, many of which the author hopes will be of use to genealogists. Illus. in text. 67pp. pictorial card covers. Vg. Scarce.