Earl W. Truitt, 48, male, was a deputy sheriff in Walker County who went out on May 20, 1919, near the small community of Empire, Alabama, following the kind of lead that was common in that era’s countryside: illicit liquor. In the area known as Drummond’s Switch, he was drawn toward property tied to a moonshine operation, and the trip turned into a trap. He was shot and killed in the ambush, cut down in a rural place where help was distant and witnesses were few, and the people responsible
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