Alabama Murderers
- Title
- Alabama Murderers
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Knoxville Journal
- Publication Place
- Knoxville, TN
- Publication Date
- 04/04/1895
- Transcript
- ALABAMA MURDERERS Taken to Montgomery for Safe Keeping Till Wanted. MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 3.-To-night Sheriff Sedberry and deputies of Elmore county brought Josephus and Will Jowell, John Morgan, John Edwards, Sr., and Alonzo Adwards, Tutor Ingram. G. M. Witchen, charged with murder to this city for safe keeping. They are charged with the murder of Rufus Swindler near Wetumpka last week. Yesterday one of the number after being arrested confessed that they formed a band and entered into a com- pact to kill Swindler whom they were afraid would inform the federal officers of their practice of making whiskey. They are white cappers and went to Swindler's house at night, beat him and wife, and dragged him out of bed and shot him dead. They had their faces blacked. John Edwards, Sr., and Kitchen came to Wetumpka to-day to employ council for the prisoners and were arrested also.
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