James Crawford, a 42-year-old man from the Huntsville area, died on December 11, 1928, in what began as a routine trip into the countryside and ended in sudden violence. He was serving as a deputy sheriff in Madison County, and that day he went out to the Monrovia community on official business tied to a bitter argument over a mule—property that one man claimed was being wrongfully held by another.
The dispute had reached a point where civil process was being used to force the animalâ€
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