Raphael Girard

On the night of October 7, 1900, 29-year-old male Patrolman Raphael A. Girard of the Hannibal Police Department was patrolling the Burlington Railroad yards in Hannibal, Missouri. Accompanied by a friend named William Martin, Girard was searching for two men suspected of burglarizing a local jewelry store earlier that day. As the pair moved alongside a train of cars, they suddenly encountered two men near the engine who were brandishing revolvers in each hand. The suspects ordered the officer an ...