In the late winter of 1909, a male lawman named John McAdams met a violent end in the mill village of Orr Mill, just outside of Anderson, South Carolina. At 43 years of age, he was serving as a Deputy Constable, appointed by the Anderson County Sheriff to maintain order among the mill workers. He also held the commission of a Deputy United States Marshal. On that fateful day, a disturbance erupted within the village as one of the mill workers, in a state of intoxication, began firing a gun indis
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