Deputy Sheriff B. G. E. Daughtry, aged 45, was fatally wounded on December 17, 1903, while assisting a Deputy United States Marshal in Westbrook Township, North Carolina. The incident occurred when they were serving a capias on a man who had failed to appear in federal court in Raleigh. The man, along with another individual, had been charged with destroying rural mailboxes near their homes.
Upon arriving at the suspect's home, Deputy Daughtry attempted to create more light by stoking th ...
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