In the early hours of May 9, 1911, a sense of duty led Constable Frank Eugene Trask, a 55-year-old male, to the railroad yard in Benson, Arizona. It was there, at approximately 12:15 a.m., that he encountered a man attempting to steal a ride on a train. What began as a routine effort to uphold the law quickly escalated into a fatal confrontation.
Constable Trask, who also served as a Deputy Sheriff for Cochise County, ordered the man to stop. When his commands were ignored, the situation
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