Mamie Thurman

Logan Banner, Thursday, August 22, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson Seventh In A Series The old Logan courthouse must have been a real site Monday, Sept.10, 1932, the day Clarence Stephenson’s trial started. The stately old southern courthouse, later torn down and replaced […]

Logan Banner, Wednesday, August 21, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part VI of a Series) It had been nearly three months since Mamie Thurman’s body was discovered atop Trace Mountain (now known as Holden 33 Mountain). Her neck was broken, two .38 caliber

Logan Banner, Tuesday, August 20, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part V in a Series) Just where is the legendary Mamie Thurman buried? Did someone try to blot out her memory, even to the point of hiding her burial spot? These are questions

Logan Banner, Monday, August 19, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part IV of a Series) Excitement was high in Logan County during the early days of July 1932. It was understandably so because it was about two weeks after the brutal murder of

Logan Banner, August 18, 1985. Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part Three of a Series) George Morrison, half-brother of Mamie Thurman, was simply trying to learn his family background when he first discovered he had a half-sister who died in Logan County in 1932.

Logan Banner, Sunday, August 18, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (Part Two Of A Series) The history surrounding the now legendary death of Mamie Thurman reads like a well-developed novel. For sheer drama, suspense and intrigue nothing anybody could have written would grip someone

Logan Banner, Thursday, August 15, 1985 Special thanks to Mark Edward Jones for providing a clipping of this article. By Dwight Williamson (First In A Series) From out of Logan County’s rowdy past comes the brother of a slain woman, not satisfied that justice was done. After a life-time, retired New Mexico lawyer George A.

By Dwight Williamson Eighty-nine years is a long time in terms of trying to resolve a hideous murder that captivated local residents at that time in 1932, likely because of the circumstances surrounding the slaying of a young woman who — let’s just say — was “loved” by many. Perhaps, too many. There has been

By Dwight Williamson “Let he who is without sin be the one to cast the first stone.” Those were the words of Jesus of Nazareth, according to the Bible, and those also were practically the only words delivered by Rev. B.C. Gamble during the 1932 church services of Mamie Thurman at Nighbert Memorial Church in