RESORT TO VIOLENCE A Chapter in American Lawlessness.

Hardback. A story of native American violence in the southern part of the state of Illinois, known as Williamson County, or "Bloody Williamson". For various reasons this particular area produced, over nearly a century, the most extraordinary displays of violence and disorder, which brought upon it nationwide notoriety. Family vendettas, labour disputes ending in wholesale massacre, the Ku Klux Klan war, and gangster murders which rivalled Chicago followed each other in swift succession; 256 pages of narrative telling of over 200 violent deaths. The author sets down his facts on a solid basis of research and lists a number of causes all endemic to America - religious bigotry, family feuds, atavistic narrowness, labour strife, a lust for money and power and to hell with the rules, and finally a supine law enforcement. With Conclusion (1930-1951), the Principal Events (Chapter by Chapter), Sources and Index. 254pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. Lightly browned edges o/w Nr. F. in lightly sunned Vg+ dw. which has sl. faded sp.