On March 8, 1909, tragedy struck the law enforcement community in Walhalla, South Carolina, resulting in the death of 24-year-old Christopher Duffie Corbin, a White male Deputy U.S. Marshal. He and his older brother, Deputy U.S. Marshal William Benjamin Franklin Corbin, had traveled to a rural area approximately three-quarters of a mile south of the town center to serve a warrant. The officers were tasked with apprehending a male suspect accused of a federal offense involving the shooting and da
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