In the small town of Hartford, Alabama, a long-simmering feud between two prominent figures reached its fatal conclusion. Clayton J. Roney, the 38-year-old male Chief of Police, died on September 10, 1931, in a gunfight with a former mayor of the town. The ex-mayor held a grudge against Chief Roney, stemming from multiple raids on his filling station by Roney and federal officers for violations of liquor laws.
The simmering animosity between the two men boiled over on that fateful day. Th
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