Detective William Weathers, aged 29, was shot and killed on October 28, 1910, near the Fernwood colliery in Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Weathers, a special officer for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, was investigating a series of incidents involving tampered railroad signals, which had caused several train wrecks in the area. On the day of his death, he encountered an Italian immigrant named Tony Diotto, who was allegedly hunting illegally with a rifle. When Weathers ordered Diot
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