Ernest Birt

In the small mining town of Crudup, Alabama, on the morning of February 14, 1911, Special Deputy Sheriff Ernest Birt, a 34-year-old White male, was making his rounds. As he walked past the hotel and commissary, a figure stepped out from a barber shop, raised a pistol, and fired a single shot. The bullet struck Birt in the back of the head, and he fell to the ground. The assailant fled the scene.

Deputy Birt was quickly taken to the office of a local physician, Dr. Camp, who determined the ...

Special Deputy Sheriff Ernest William Birt