Columbia Murder And Intent To Kill

By: Nycole Collins

Small towns are supposed to conjure up images of peaceful communities and safe havens to raise your children. They're viewed as places where everyone knows your name, and no one locks their doors, but old Columbia was far from a peaceful community. The town was wicked, wretched, and dangerous and if the doors weren't locked tramps or other strangers would often wander in and take whatever they wanted, including your life. It was a dull day in the town of Columbia when a murder was not committed. In fact, a day scarcely passed without the deed of darkness within the borders of the borough, adding yet another blood-stained page to the history of the small town. Shooting affrays, stabbings, murders, and other crimes were an everyday occurrence. It's surprising how few had any just conception of the law governing riots, murders, and assaults. Some of the latter dates back more than two centuries when Columbia was the site of quite a few brutal and sensational murders. In later days, after the invent of the railroad the town grew in its capacity for danger and murder became even more frequent. Citizens were considered lucky if they ventured out after dark and weren't assaulted, robbed, disemboweled, or shot. There were no state police in those days. The police protection was mainly given by constables, and few of them could fill the duties of the office. Consequently, crime was little investigated, seldom solved and eventually forgotten.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D9WD97LY
• ISBN13: 9798333591388
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 142 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"