On the night of September 7, 1900, Marshal Salathiel Coffee Aulgur, known to many in the community simply as 'Sail,' was performing his duties in Marshall, Missouri. Aulgur, a 63-year-old male who had served in law enforcement for eight years, discovered a crime in progress at the Chicago and Alton Railroad depot. Three individuals were in the process of robbing the station's ticket clerk when the marshal arrived on the scene.
Marshal Aulgur approached the suspects from behind and command
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