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James Stewart

Case from Bay-minette, AL dated Apr 06, 1895

Victim Details

James Stewart

Male

Bay-minette

AL

1895-04-06

30

James

Stewart

07/13/2026

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Bay Minette, Alabama, was still a small railroad town when the night of April 6, 1895, turned violent. James R. Stewart, a 30-year-old male deputy sheriff, went out as part of an effort to stop a feared robbery suspect who was moving along the Louisville & Nashville line and slipping away into the dark pine country whenever the law closed in.

Accounts describe the suspect as the outlaw known as “Railroad Bill,” later widely identified as Morris Slater, an African American fugitive wh ...
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    Has anyone looked into the local community's response to Deputy Stewart's tragic death back in 1895?... ...Read More
    05/13/2024
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    09/23/2023
    Does anyone else think about the kind of courage it must have taken for Deputy Sheriff James H. Stew... ...Read More
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