Sewell H. Burnett, a 45-year-old White male, spent the quietest hours of June 15, 1919, walking his rounds as Osceola’s night marshal. A little after four in the morning, the stillness broke—a single gunshot that a guest at the Beall Hotel heard echo near Hale Avenue and Walnut Street. When the sound faded and the streetlamps settled back into their cone of light, Burnett lay on the sidewalk, felled by a shotgun blast, the workmanlike routine of a small-town peacekeeper ending without warnin
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