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- Description is exactly "Report of the December, 1939 fatal shooting at close range of African-American Willie Sam Malone with a 12 gauge shotgun by African-American Edward James Martin at a North Florence residence. Martin, aged 19, surrendered to Lauderdale County Sheriff Edgar Fulmer and is being held in jail on a charge of murder.
In 1951, Martin was pardoned by the Alabama Pardon-Parole Board. "
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