Wilcox County AlArchives News.....Hattie Baldwin Killed by Joe West October 29 1908
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, October 29, 1908
Negro Woman Killed
And Two Men Seriously Wounded by Joe West, Colored.
  On Last Saturday, about 3 o'clock, on returning from Camden to their home at 
Possum Bend, Joe West, a negro, who had been drinking and who was considerably 
wrought up on account of his wife leaving him, concluded to settle his family 
troubles with a 44 Smith and Wesson, and shot his sister-in-law, Hattie 
Baldwin, killing her instantly. His intention was to kill his wife, but she 
escaped with a few blows on her head with the pistol after it was emptied. In 
the shooting Sam Peyton and another negro man were both badly wounded. The 
murderer was captured by the negroes of the neighborhood; who were preparing to 
lynch him but were prevented by the arrival of the officers who brought him to 
jail.
  Joe West comes from bad negro stock. He is a son of Sylvester West who was 
connected with the murder of Mike Sellers several years ago, but escaped by 
turning states evidence. He afterwards was sent to the penitentiary for life 
for the murder of a negro by the name of Jim Bridges, and was killed by the 
prison guards in an attempt to escape.

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Wilcox Progressive Era Newspaper Microfilm located at the Alabama Department 
of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.


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