William L. McCain, a 49-year-old White male, was serving as a deputy sheriff in Wetumpka, Alabama, when his life was cut short on October 6, 1906. The surviving accounts paint the killing as an ambush rather than a sudden quarrel, the kind of violence that arrives with forethought and leaves a town stunned. McCain had reportedly served with the Elmore County Sheriff’s Office for about four years, and the records that preserve his death remember him not as a passing victim in an old newspaper l
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