In the pre-dawn hours of October 10, 1905, a sense of duty carried 48-year-old Constable Thomas Hardy through the rail yard near Weverton Station, Maryland. A man of the law, he was in the midst of a routine yet potentially perilous task: checking a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train for trespassers. Accompanied by another deputy and a railroad detective, the men split up to cover more ground, a decision that would leave Hardy tragically isolated in his final moments.
As his partners worke
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