In the late hours of July 31, 1901, a male New Haven police officer, Hugh McKeon, aged 40, met a violent and untimely end. A veteran of the force for fifteen years, Officer McKeon was a respected and popular figure among his colleagues. That fateful night, he and his partner, Officer Turbett, embarked on what would be their final patrol together, a raid on a suspected house of ill repute located at 12 Prindle Alley, a place with a notorious reputation that had been the subject of several prior p
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