Hugh C. Petrie, a 32-year-old White male, had barely stepped into police work in Cheyenne before his story turned violent. Online memorial and departmental accounts agree that he had been with the Cheyenne Police Department for only five days, after earlier service as a fireman, when he died on June 7, 1919. That short span on the force gives the case a stark, almost unfinished feeling: a man just beginning one dangerous public calling after another, suddenly pulled into a fatal encounter before
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