Bentley MacFarland Burnett, a 60-year-old male city marshal, was killed in Haleyville, Alabama, on September 5, 1908, in what surviving online accounts describe as a sudden burst of violence during an arrest. The clearest retellings say Burnett was escorting a prisoner to the town calaboose or jail that Saturday night when another man came up from behind and demanded that the prisoner be released. When Burnett refused, the man opened fire, and one contemporary newspaper transcription says the ma
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