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On this site stood the Calhoun House, used as a Federal Courthouse, where desperado Frank James was tried and found not guilty by jury trial on April 25, 1884, for the robbery of a government payroll near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on March 11, 1881. One of his defense attorneys was Huntsville’s LeRoy Pope Walker, first secretary of war of the Confederate States of America.
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Huntsville, Alabama · United States
