| Summary: | Kilpatrick had been charged with the murder of her husband, Boaz police chief Leonard J. Floyd, who had been killed in a shoot-out on May 17; Upton and Fred Goble were also charged in connection with the event, during which three other men (Sheriff E. M. Boyes, Chief Deputy Washington Bennett, and Kilpatrick's father, Aubrey) were also killed. This image was published in the Birmingham News on July 24, 1951, with the following caption: "It's hard to forget - Mrs. Leonard J. Floyd, wife of the slain Boaz police chief, is shown with her two children who were orphaned in the blaze of gunfire which ripped out at the Boaz home of Aubrey Kilpatrick last May. They are shown in the Albertville courtroom yesterday, where trial of Jimmy Kilpatrick got underway."
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