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-'''Jug Town''' was the name given to an informal collection of saloons and whisky houses at the intersection of [[Stouts Road]] and [[Walker's Chapel Road]] which served the nearby [[Lewisburg]] and [[Newcastle]] mining communities in the early 1910s. The "Wild West" character of the district expressed itself in countless fights and feuds, giving the entire [[Jefferson County voting precincts|voting beat]] the nickname '''Bloody Beat 22'''.
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-A gang led by brothers [[Arthur Jones|Arthur]] and [[Walter Jones]], along with [[Will Watson]], [[Teck Duncan]] and [[Henry Cole]], were blamed for most of the murders that beset the community.
-In [[1914]] Judge [[Harrington Heflin]], serving as [[Jefferson County Solicitor]], organized a clean-up of the district. [[Governor of Alabama|Governor]] [[Emmet O'Neal]] contracted with special counsel to help prepare cases for trial. Arthur Jones and Watson were convicted, in a notable prosecution, of the murder of [[John Holland]], an African American, and were sentenced to hang.
-Those prosecutions, along with the closure of the saloons during [[prohibition]], helped the district to reinvent itself as the suburb of [[Fultondale]].
-==References==
-* "Birmingham Third in Murder List: 112 Slain in 1925, Only Two Hanged." (April 2, 1926) ''Birmingham Post''
-[[Category:Entertainment districts]]
-[[Category:Crime]]
-[[Category:1914 disestablishments]]