The Assassination of Lewis Waits: "Lewis Waits Shot in His Own Door" "A Cowardly Assassination" "County Treasurers' Report, May 29, 1908"
Three newspaper articles dealing with the April, 1906 assassination of African-American Florence resident Lewis Waits (ca. 1858-1908) as he stood in the doorway of his Handy Hill home. A coroner's inquest held by JD Weeden determined that Waits was killed by a shotgun blast with some twenty-sev...
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| Online Access: | https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/1062 |