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FD-350 {Rev §.8-81) {Indicate page. name of newspaper, city and state.) THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS D Willie Edwards’ — 2200". abduction death §till haunts state Revelations may force review of 1957 killing and later probe MONTGOM- RY — They called him “Moo- kie,” a name that fH seemed to fit his small stature — 5-feet-6, 150 poun i But today, the shadow of Willie Edwards, 24, continues to haunt Ala- H bama, a state which was hold of Ku Klux Klan activ Edwards, who was black, died the night of Jan. 23, 1957, when a group H of white men abducted him and } forced him to jump from the Tyler { Goodwyn Bridge in Montgomery, ac- cording to indict statements given tn the Additional details about Edwards’ death have emerged since Diane Al- exander, the wife of Klan member Henry Alexander, revealed two weeks ago that her husband con- fessed to the deed as he lay near : death last December. ' She also said her husband had worked for the FBI as an informant. Alexander's first wife, Edna, who was married to him wher the Ed- wards incident took place, had given investigators a statement in 1976 implicating her husband in the mur- der “Edna was one of my informants on Klan activity,” said Jack Shows, a former Montgomery detective and later chief investigator for then-At- torney General Bill Baxley waited ohn ey tant me Copy Sent toned a missing Winn-Dixie truc! riser To FBIHO ‘Tite “WILLIE EDWARDS' ABDUCTION DEATH STILL HAUNTS STATE" | | character or | Classification |Suomiting Office, BH indexing