Burns Almon, 39, a White man serving as a deputy sheriff in Morgan County, Alabama, died on September 10, 1927, after a raid on an illegal liquor still east of Decatur turned into a running gunfight.
It was late morning, just before noon, when Sheriff B. E. Davis and a small group of deputies closed in on the operation. The still sat out beyond town, the kind of hidden place meant for quick work and quicker disappearances. As the officers arrived, the people working the still broke and r
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