In the late autumn of 1911, a dispute on the streets of Aiken, South Carolina, culminated in the tragic death of a veteran lawman. Officer Wade Hampton Patterson, a 55-year-old man who had dedicated 35 years of his life to law enforcement, was shot and killed while attempting to make an arrest. The series of events that led to the fatal encounter began with a seemingly minor incident.
Earlier in the day, Officer Patterson had a verbal altercation with a man. He had cautioned the individua
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