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FD-350 (Rev 5-861) {Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS (Mount Clipping in Space Below) BIRMINGHAM, AL. - — pate 9/2/93 Eaton: THURSDAY e DA vlews Tile "DA VIEWS DEATHBED CON- FESSION" Character. €a € : Crassificator Submitting OfficeBH confession = | INDEX Could reopen 1957 unsolved murder By Frank Sikora News staff writer | MONTGOMERY —- At the Civil Rights Memo- rial here Wednesday, someone placed a single white rose in the thin sheet of shimmering water. : The rose rested next to the name of Willie Ed- ‘ wards, one of the more than 30 people who died in the civil rights movement in the South during the 1950s and "60s. The unsolved 1957 murder of Edwards, 25, an obscure truck driver with a wife and three child- ren, returned to the forefrant with the revelation that a former Ku Klux Klansman reportedly made a deathbed confession to his wife about the case. Now, the Montgomery County district attorney's office says the case could be reopened if new evi- dence is found Bill Mayer, chief deputy of the Montgomery County District Attorney's office, on Wednesday said the office is reviewing the case but has not : launched a new investigation ' ‘At this point all we know is what we've read in i the newspapers,” he said. “However, if we get some more information, then it could be that we would look at reopening it.” Edwards was stopped by severa! white men on the night of Jan. 23, 1957, and ordered at gunpoint to jump from the Tyler Goodwyn bridge into the . = ~ Alabama River JS 27 BS2- SE/ = His body was found three months later in Low- : ndes County BE see ree The widow of a former Klan member last week | ° 12 +993 4 * P : ‘ Copy Sent | i To FBINQ So ayer