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 had
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