Alexander McGill, a male railroad police special agent, was killed on December 22, 1912, near Elrod, Alabama, in a case that unfolded aboard Mobile and Ohio passenger train No. 103 as it ran between Artesia, Mississippi, and Tuscaloosa. By the available accounts, McGill was working his patrol on the train when he encountered a railroad porter in the baggage car who was allegedly selling whiskey to passengers. What began as an on-duty confrontation turned deadly. The porter shot McGill, and McGil
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