Joseph Littleton Edwards, a 46-year-old male deputy sheriff in Dallas County, was killed on April 28, 1901, at Tyler, Alabama, in a shooting that appears in the surviving online record as both sudden and grimly practical. The clearest accounts say he was trying to serve a warrant on a man accused of stealing a cow when the encounter turned deadly. Rather than a long public chase preserved in modern summaries, what remains online suggests a brief, violent moment: an officer going out to do a rout
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