Leonard S. Rich, a 42-year-old male serving as Webb City's city marshal, was killed in Webb City, Missouri, in the early hours of August 10, 1902, when a late-night call pulled him into the kind of trouble that gathered around the town's rowdier corners. The disturbance came from a two-story establishment on Main Street widely described as Lizzie Reed's Resort, also known as the Reed House, a place where drinking, gambling, and vice blended into the mining-boom nightlife.
That night, two
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