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 whose
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