L. C. Padgett, a male former policeman in Brunswick, Georgia, was caught in one of the city’s worst eruptions of public violence on March 6, 1915, when Monroe Phillips strode into downtown armed with a shotgun and turned a business district into a killing ground. Contemporary newspaper accounts place the beginning of the bloodshed in attorney Harry F. Dunwoody’s office, where Phillips first shot Dunwoody and then wounded Albert M. Way. The gunfire brought people in the street and in Branchâ€
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