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Against the backdrop of thousands of gawking and disorderly
onlookers, a Franklin County Sheriff, oversees the public hanging
of the Coley brothers for the murder of a Jewish peddler. On humid
July, Friday the 13th, 1884 in Louisburg, North Carolina, Tom and
Calvin Coley meet their death at the end of a rope on the front
lawn of the Franklin County Courthouse. Later they were carried by
wagon to a little hamlet called Wood about 20 miles away to be
buried where they were born. Originally published in 1984 by the
late W. F. Shelton, The Day the Black Rain Fell is part whodunit,
part courtroom drama and a vivid re-telling of crime and punishment
a hundred or so years ago. Shelton, a former mayor, municipal
judge, theater operator and accountant, brings to life that balmy
day when honorable men, obligated to uphold the "rule of law," mete
out a horrific punishment.
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