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Edwin Anthony Kirby

Case from Jackson, AL dated Sep 26, 1921

Victim Details

Edwin Anthony

Male

Jackson

AL

1921-09-26

43

Edwin

Anthony Kirby

Yes

07/03/2026

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On September 26, 1921, Edwin Anthony “Ed” Kirby, a 43-year-old male deputy sheriff in Jackson County, Alabama, rode out on a dangerous kind of duty that had become grimly familiar in that era: breaking up an illicit moonshining operation in the hills near Scottsboro. The still the deputies went after was reported as a sizable one, and the men who tended it were not expecting to surrender quietly. Kirby and another deputy, J. N. “Jerde” Owens, pushed into the raid anyway, stepping into a ...
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