Does anyone have knowledge or related to Gene Mizell or Abe Baxter? Gene Mizell is Abe Baxter's half nephew. Gene Mizell was probably born about 1930 in Washington County, Alabama/ ALABAMA'S MISSING BARBER, POT OF BOILING (COPIED AS WRITTEN) EMIL GURNEY IS NOT A REAL NAME. HE IS REAL, BUT THE NAME IS FICTITIOUS Along , eerie shadow of pine and bay trees played grotesquely across the figures four men who stool ominously still in a lonely dirt road that led to the village of Vinegar Bend, Ala. a few miles east of the Mississippi state line. The strange quartet were variously garbed in native blue denim overalls, faded'---shirts and thick-old leather boots. From the hands of each dangled a high powered rifle or shotgun. A queer uncertainty of impending action dominated their unsmoling faces. Wash Dailey, youngest of the four, crushed a cigarette in the dust after two --Vous puffs. Something 's wrong here, ;he muttered. "Abe should have been here a half an hour ago. You sure he got it straight?" Joe Skumro straightened his gaint frame to full height. Slightly past 40, he was a half head taller than the rest. Iis sensuous mouth curled into a sarcastic smile. Fierce, narrrow - set eyes appraised Daily from head to foot. "What you so nervous about?" he sneered. "Maybe, you'd like to back out of this . Abe said he would be here by dark and tht means he'll be here. The otheer two stood silently apart. Wesley Berry, whose gray hair and furrowed ...ck branded him the oldest, merely nodded. Emile Gurney turned his bald head and looked furtively down the narrow road. " Here he comes." A hundred yards distance, through the somber May dusk, a bent form of the village barber, Abe Baxter, was approaching. In his left hand he held a bulging suitcase under his right arm was a single barrel shotgun. Walking slightly behind him was his 30 year - old nephew, Gene Mizell. Baxter carewarn face betrayed his 45 years. The last rays of the setting sun lighted his features as he came closer end smiled wanly at the four men who he had known since his childhood. "Sorry I'm a little late boys, he apologized." " I had some packing to do before we hunt." The quaret ignored the apology, shefed newvously, The tall black-haired Skumro spoke. "Did you tell anybody you was going deer huntuing. Abe?" Baxter"s intuition warned that tomething was amiss. These men had more on their minds than an evening deer hunt. (STOP COPYING) At the end of the 11 page type written story.was written Abe Baxter's bones at this writing, still repose in the attic of the courthouse at Chatom, unburied and unclaimed in a brown pasteboard carton. Latter Abe Baxter's son claimed the bones and buried him in Fruidale Cemetery in Fruitdale, Alabama, Washington County.(The story was probably written in sometimes in the 1930s.) Stories goes, they killed him, hid his body in a shack in the woods until the buzzards started flying over the shack., came back latter and boiled his body. They hung his bones in a croker sack and hung them in a tree in Fruitdale, Alabama in Washington County. Stories also go Abe was leaving his wife and family to run off with a young girl and had sold the Barber Shop and sold his school bus he drove and the money was in the suitcase and the four men including his half nephew Gen Mizell knew it. This story was in all the Dectective Storty Magazines.In Newspapers and Radio. The bones were found. They knew the bones were Abe Baxter's because of a pin in his knee. The four men were caught. Gene Mizel started talking about the murder to his friends. What I have written is from one of the four men. Skumro went to Kilby Prison. Does anyone know who wrote this hand typed story, many years ago. I was given to me by one of my Platt cousins Vernice Platt Davidson. I also talked to the Milzells in Escatawpa, Alabama , Washington County. Vernice also knew Skumro. Can anyone add to this story so the ending can be closed? I had a great copy of a picture of Abe Baxter , but sent it with a promise to return it as soon as he had it copied. Because it would take to long for me to get it to him. Dr. Baxter was retireing and promise to get the picture right back to me. Sandra maiden name Waldrop Georgia