In the late summer of 1914, the city of Anniston, Alabama, was rocked by a violent act that claimed the lives of two of its own. On the evening of Saturday, September 12, Police Officer J.W. Dashwood, a 45-year-old male, and his partner, Officer Will Dillard, were engaged in their duties to uphold the law. Their focus that night was an illegal liquor establishment operating out of a local residence. As the two officers approached the home and began to ascend the front steps, their attempt to rai
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