The Murder of Father James Edward Coyle

RJ Carr
5 min readJul 26, 2023
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No one knows if the Reverend James Edward Coyle, a missionary priest from Ireland, knew when he sat on his front porch swing at his Catholic rectory in Birmingham, Alabama that he was about to enter his final rest but in fact, it came soon after on that Thursday night in late August 1921.

On the hot, Alabama evening of the twenty-first of August, the Rev. Edwin Stephenson, a licensed preacher in…

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