Shelbyville - Murders and Mob Justice in a Small Town

<p><span style=color: rgba(26 24 25 1)>When the No.5 left Nashville little did anyone know the events of February 10 1912 would take an ugly turn. Three NC&St.L Railway employees brothers Wat Greer and David Neal and a third man Charles Dane Bomar would be charged with the murder of S.W. Everson a railroad detective and within two weeks two of these three men would be dead at the hands of a lynch mob.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the winter of 1911 Shelbyville Tennessee a town that had not seen significant crime in decades suddenly faced the troubling murder of three of its law enforcement officers. Sheriff Big Jim Williams found himself in the difficult position of having to protect four suspected murderers from citizens of Shelbyville who were determined to take the law into their own hands and deliver their version of justice to the alleged killers. In one case the sheriff successfully safeguarded the suspects; however in another case he experienced a dismal failure.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>