Thomas J. Kling, a White male lieutenant with the Rawlins Police Department, was killed in Rawlins, Wyoming, on April 20, 1903, after what appears in the surviving accounts as a routine response turned into a deadly trap. That night, shots were reported at a local grocery store owned by Frank Keefe. One account says Officer James Spencer reached the scene first and found Keefe inside with a rifle, and that Keefe fired at him and missed. Soon afterward, Kling and City Marshal John Baxter came to
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