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Side by Side: Moonshine and Murder in Mississippi

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A true crime story of a gruesome double homicide in the Jim Crow South, and the manhunt and trial that followed. In Oxford, Mississippi, the dawn of the twentieth century seemed to present a sweeping landscape of progress and possibility. But under this veneer of technological advancement, cultural achievement, and prosperity lurked a stubborn core of racial discrimination, rampant criminal brutality, and violence. On a Sunday morning in 1901, the mutilated corpses of two federal marshals were discovered in the smoldering remains of the home of a notorious local malefactor. The murders, committed by moonshiner and counterfeiter Will Mathis and his father-in-law's servant Orlando Lester, captivated the nation. The crimes ignited a manhunt, a trial marked by desperate lies and legerdemain, and a media frenzy around the hanging of a white man and a black man side by side. This enthralling account centers on two men—judged unequal in life but equal in death. The story draws on primary sources to craft a spellbinding narrative of singular immediacy and vitality. With the consummate skill of a master raconteur, author T. J. Ray powerfully evokes an era, a community, and its people. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pelican Publishing


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Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 10, 2016


Language ‏ : ‎ English


File size ‏ : ‎ 10.6 MB


Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • I like all of it
Format: Paperback
As I am the guy who wrote the book, I like all of it! tjr
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2018 by Tommy J. Or Ray
    • Good read
Format: Paperback
good reading of a true story.
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2016 by Bettye J. Jackson
    • A true, complex and well told double murder of two US marshals
Format: Paperback
In 1901, two US marshals ride horseback south of Oxford, Mississippi to arrest a local counterfeiter and moonshiner they know well… And with whom they enjoy a relatively cordial relationship. Given the lateness of their arrival, the subject of the arrest warrant suggests the marshals stay overnight, proposing they all ride back to Oxford the following morning. The marshals agree and spend the remainder of the evening eating and drinking with the subject and his family before bedding down in a spare shed room of their hosts. Overnight, something goes terribly wrong. The excellent narrative by retired English professor T J Ray, explores the motives and the actions of 5 qualified murder suspects, the courtroom dramas that ensue and the ultimate outcome for each suspect. This is a true and complex story, well researched and well told. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2023 by JBB
    • that would make a damn good movie. ” And it would
Format: Paperback
T.J. Ray’s story of the hanging of Mathis and Lester is one of those books you read and come away thinking, “Wow, that would make a damn good movie.” And it would. Death as the circumscription of all human activity is also the Great Equalizer, uniting men of all stripes, but the hanging of Will and Orlando brought fate and justice together in a jagged gray crescendo. Fashioning a screenplay for Side by Side would be aided and enhanced by Dr. Ray’s meticulous research, his informative narration that moves us through the court speeches with appropriate dispatch, his accounts of media coverage that enhance the drama now as it did then and his descriptions of Lafayette and Pontotoc Counties that set a sordid Yoknapatawphan stage for what ultimately is a squalid incidence of multiple murder. At the turn of the last century, north Mississippi was still for the most part a wilderness, little more than a network of villages and towns strung together along dirt and gravel roads, traveled by or with a horse, united only in proximity. The scars of the Civil War still ran deep, and the nascent justice system of the newly-Reconstructed state was itself reeling from legal ramifications of military defeat. Yet justice had to be established, the state was growing, and the cases of Will Mathis and Orlando Lester, grisly in detail, proved to be a public circus that ended in a lethal trapeze. Side by Side is as much about race than it is of the reestablishment of justice in the abject South, an ongoing trial if there ever was one. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2016 by Amazon Customer

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