Bay Minette, Alabama, was still a small railroad town when the night of April 6, 1895, turned violent. James R. Stewart, a 30-year-old male deputy sheriff, went out as part of an effort to stop a feared robbery suspect who was moving along the Louisville & Nashville line and slipping away into the dark pine country whenever the law closed in.
Accounts describe the suspect as the outlaw known as “Railroad Bill,” later widely identified as Morris Slater, an African American fugitive wh
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