A Deadly Brawl At Turkey Creek

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture, Performing Arts

4.4 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Amos Lunsford Meets His Match

Episode 175 comes by the way of a request from a listener in North Carolina who wanted to know more about this incident, a fight about a horse at a church revival camp that gets out of hand. There might have been whiskey involved. Go figure.

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0:00.0	Popular
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0:03.0	Ashville, North Carolina, August 27th, 1889
0:12.0	Another bloody chapter has been added to Buncombe County's annals of crime, and this time, as in three other instances this year, a human life has been taken.
0:29.4	How, when, and where this sort of thing will stop is beyond the kin of mortal man, unless some steps are taken by those who have the right to take them,
0:40.2	to put an end to those deeds that have already disgraced the fair name of our county
0:45.5	and set law and order at defiance.
0:49.1	A halt must be called, and no time lost in affecting adequate ways and means whereby homicides and murders
0:57.4	shall be checked. Human life is not safe, nor society tenable when the pistol and knife
1:04.8	are brought into such ready and fatal play upon the slightest pretext to cause.
1:19.9	Law, order, society, humanity appeals for a wiping out of these inhuman, diabolical, and hell-born practices of men.
1:23.0	Another homicide has been committed in Buncombe.
1:26.4	The victim of passionate fury has been summoned before
1:29.6	his maker and the slayer now occupies a cell in the common jail of his county. One has lost his life,
1:37.8	the other his liberty, and must run the chances of life or death in a trial before a jury of his countrymen.
1:47.0	Horrible to contemplate is the state of affairs existing in any city, town, or community. True Crime Historian presents yesterday's news.
2:25.3	Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels, and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism.
2:38.9	Episode 175 comes by way of a request from a listener in North Carolina, who wanted to know more about this incident, a fight about a horse at a church revival camp that sort of got out of hand.
2:41.1	There might have been whiskey involved.
2:42.2	Go figure.
2:47.0	I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and I give you...
2:51.6	A deadly brawl at Turkey Creek. Amos Lunsford meets his match.
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