Phil Andrews killed by Wiley Henderson, Butler, Alabama 

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"ANOTHER MAN KILLED" from The Greenville Advocate, December 28, 1898

ANOTHER MAN KILLED
   Last Tuesday about 12 o'clock a man by the name of Phil Andrews was shot and
killed by Wiley Henderson. The killing took place in this county seven or eight 
miles east of this city. All the parties are residents of Monroe county, and 
were coming to Greenville with cotton.
   From what we can gather about the matter it seems as if there were some bad 
blood existing between the parties caused from the fact that Henderson had been 
a witness against Andrews in a case at the last term of the circuit court, and 
it is said that Andrews has threatened Henderson. On the day of the killing 
while Henderson was on his way to town he came up to where Andrews was camped 
for dinner. They had some words, when the shooting took place, and Andrews was 
dead and Henderson had some powder burns on his face.
   Henderson immediately came on to town and gave himself up to Sheriff Shanks 
and was locked up in jail. He claims that the killing was done purely in self 
defense, and will make that plea before court. There were several eye witnesses 
to the tragedy and the facts will doubtless be brought out at the trial.
   Andrews had many relatives and friends in the neighborhood in which he lived 
and the same can be said of Henderson, and the feeling between the two factions 
are deep and bitter.
   The preliminary trial was to have taken place last Saturday, but the absence 
of some of the witnesses caused the attorneys to ask that it be put off until 
Monday the second day of January. The trial will be heard before Hon. H.B. 
Pilley, in the office of the Register in Chancery, and will doubtless attract 
as large an attendance as any preliminary trial had in the county for some 
years.
   Messrs Lane & Crenshaw were secured to defend Henderson.
   Friends of both parties were much in evidence in the city ever since the 
tragedy and it is said they were well armed as if they expected warm times.