Wilcox County AlArchives News.....JIM ANDREWS AND WIFE KILLED December 22 1904
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Stephen Lee leeactive@aol.com December 3, 2003, 11:05 pm

Wilcox Progressive Era

  One of the blackest crimes that ever stained the history of any 
county, was committed at Schuster, Ala., on Saturday night last about 
9 o'clock, when old man Jim Andrews and his wife were killed, and his 
two sons by a former wife were arrested and put in jail here, John and 
Bob are there names, one living in Repton, Ala., and the other a 
farmer near Schuster. Their Father had but one week before bought a 
place and moved to Schuster from McWilliams Station. Mr. Andrews was 
shot in the stomach and his wife was shot twice, once in the back and 
once in the head, her throat was cut and other knife wounds about her 
body. The evidence, as told to us, seems pretty strong against the 
accused, but we refrain from saying anything to further inflame the 
public mind, or in any way prejudice the public or mould sentiment 
against them through our columns, sufficient it is, to say that they 
are now in the hands of the law, with what is believed to be 
sufficient evidence to convict them, and they should have a fair and 
impartial hearing before the courts, and if found guilty, no 
punishment would be too severe to satisfy the law and wipe out the 
stain placed on the fair name of our county.


Researchers note: In a Jan 1905 follow up article in the Wilcox
Progressive Era, Jim Andrews wife was identified as "Bama Andrews."


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