Oscar Jerkins, a 57-year-old male Hartford police officer, was killed in Hartford, Alabama, on August 7, 1933, in a case that seems to have unfolded through confusion, gunfire, and the kind of small-town shock that lingers long after sunrise. Early newspaper coverage described him as a Hartford policeman and a former Dothan man, slain while on duty in the early morning hours. Those first accounts carried an air of uncertainty, suggesting he had been shot under mysterious circumstances before the
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