Crowd at the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, during the trial of men accused of murdering police officer J. T. Moser.
Several related images were published in the Birmingham News on February 1, 1939, with the following caption: "Killer Slays Him with His Own Gun - City Detective J. T. Moser, veteran law enforcement officer known to hundreds upon hundreds of Birmingham residents as 'Jim,' was shot to...
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| Summary: | Several related images were published in the Birmingham News on February 1, 1939, with the following caption: "Killer Slays Him with His Own Gun - City Detective J. T. Moser, veteran law enforcement officer known to hundreds upon hundreds of Birmingham residents as 'Jim,' was shot to death last night by one of two men he was questioning when one of the pair seized Moser's own gun and fired point blank at his heart. Pictured here are persons and things which figured prominently in the shooting about 9:30 p.m. at Twelfth Street and Sixth Avenue, South." |
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