Wilcox County AlArchives News.....Prominent Man Killed September 8 1904
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Wilcox Progressive Era

  News has been received here of the foul assassination near his
home, in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, of Mr. J. S. Candee, a 
prominent planter. Mr. Candee's body was found in the road with 
seven bullet holes near the heart, and the impression prevailed 
that he was shot down from ambush by some person, whose identity
has not yet been learned.
  Mr. Candee was above sixty years of age and had been a frequent 
visitor to Mobile, where he enjoyed a large circle of acquaintances. 
In former years he engaged extensively in horse selling, and many 
people here learned to know him through transactions and in a 
general business way. His friends in Mobile speak well of the man
and regretted to hear of this death in such a foul manner. 
  It was learned here that much indignation had been expressed by
the people in the vicinity of Mr. Candee's home, and a desperate 
effort will be made to locate and capture the guilty person and bring
him to justice. Mr. Candee was a wealthy man and in former years had 
figured prominently in politics, being a leader in the Republican
party in his section during the reign of that party in Alabama. He 
was one time sheriff of Wilcox County and a member of the legislature.
-  Mobile Herald.


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