In the winter of 1904, in the town of Sandersville, Georgia, a law enforcement officer named Gideon Littleton Mathis, a 57-year-old male, met a violent end. On Friday, December 23rd, while on duty as a Special Officer with the Sandersville Police Department, Mathis was engaged in the enforcement of a compulsory vaccination order. It was on Jernigan Street that he encountered a man who refused to comply with the mandate.
The situation escalated dramatically when Officer Mathis attempted to
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