In the late spring of 1918, a dedicated lawman in Athens, Alabama, met a violent and untimely end. Chief Deputy James Henry Eubank, a 36-year-old male officer with the Limestone County Sheriff's Office, was killed in the line of duty on Thursday, June 13, 1918. He had served the department for three years.
The fatal encounter occurred five miles west of Athens as Chief Deputy Eubank was actively searching for a fugitive. Acting on a report that the suspect might be concealed within a part
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