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The Assassination of Lewis Waits:

"Lewis Waits Shot in His Own Door"

"A Cowardly Assassination"

"County Treasurers' Report, May 29, 1908"

Lewis Waits Shot in His Own Door FH Wed Apr 29 1908 p 1.jpg

Three newspaper articles dealing with the April, 1906 assassination of African-American Florence resident Lewis Waits (ca. 1858-1908) as he stood in the doorway of his Handy Hill home. A coroner's inquest held by JD Weeden determined that Waits was…

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