Crenshaw County AlArchives News.....KILLING OF SUMMERLIN September 16, 1897
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The Luverne Journal September 16, 1897
    “KILLING OF SUMMERLIN
    The following account of the affair is from the Troy Journal:
    Our little town has just been in stir over the excitement of the shooting 
of our night-watchman, by one Mr. Barksdale, which took place two days ago.  
The difficulty occurred about the nightman being accused by Mr. Barksdale of 
having been on one occasion too drunk to be on duty, which Mr. Summerlin, 
watchman, denied with oath attached, when Mr. Barksdale fired on him twice.  
The first shot passed through Mr. Summerlin just below his heart and perhaps 
through the upper part of bowels and out the left side of his backbone.  He 
lived a little over twenty-four hours.  His father took the remains to 
Bradleyton to be buried.
    He leaves an aged father and several brothers and sister, a wife and six 
little children to mourn his untimely death.
    Mr. Barksdale was arrested and taken to jail to await his trial.  He went 
off with the officers one night and Mr. Summerlin was carried along the same 
road on the next night, one dead and the other alive, both going to meet the 
impending judgement before them.
    Oh! How sad are some of the happenings of life.  ‘In the midst of life we 
are in death.’ ”  (1)

(1)  The Luverne Journal, Thursday, 16 Sep 1897, p. 3. Microfilm: Located in 
the Alabama Archives and History, Montgomery, AL.


“PARTICULARLY PERTAING TO THE PEOPLE OF CRENSHAW COUNTY

    The grand jury found an indictment for murder in the first degree against 
Mr. Barksdale for the killing of Mr. R. W. Summerlin.  Judge Tyson ordered a 
special venire of 50 jurors drawn and set the case for next week.”  (1)  
 
(1) The Luverne Journal, Thursday, 16 Sep 1897, p. 3. Microfilm: Located in 
the Alabama Archives and History, Montgomery, AL.


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