Word: gunstock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eastern Tennessee's McMinn County, on the western roll of the Blue Ridge Mountains, politics is played for keeps, right up to the gunstock. For almost 30 years, McMinn's shootingest politician has been a stocky, grim-faced Democrat named Thomas Burkett Ivins, 63. As a "revenooer," a deputy marshal and McMinn County's sheriff, Burkett Ivins had never been slow on the draw. He had killed seven men-all, it was decided, justifiably. Old Burkett was proud of his pistol prowess; no one in sight of his one good eye was going to outshoot...
...first moment of rage he clubbed Morris Love, 58, to death with a croquet mallet, lying handy on the old front porch. When son James Love, 21, ran out of the house with a rifle, Clatterbuck disarmed him, shot him in the head, bashed his head with the gunstock for good measure. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot Mrs. Love through the heart, went on out to the barn. There he shot and clubbed the hired man and his wife, left them dead...