On August 30, 1909, John L. Wainwright, a male deputy sheriff serving with the Clarke County Sheriff’s Department, went into the town of Jackson, Alabama, to take two brothers into custody. What should have been a routine arrest turned suddenly dangerous: as Wainwright tried to carry out the arrests, gunfire erupted, and he was shot and killed there in Jackson, ending his service in the line of duty.
In the immediate aftermath, attention fixed on the two brothers Wainwright had been tr
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