The NC Store Burglary That Ended in a Gun Battle
It was a rainy Friday night in February 1901 in the village of Emma, NC, three miles west of Asheville. Five men were on a collision course. Three would leave with gunshot wounds. Two would die. Sometime between 8:00 and 9:00 pm, Samuel Alexander closed D.J. McClelland’s store, which also housed the Emma Post Office, […]
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