In the crisp autumn air of a Buffalo, New York evening on November 19, 1912, a 47-year-old White male named George E. Claus, a patrolman with the Buffalo Police Department, found his life cut tragically short. An officer with 17 years of service, he was a husband and a father to six children. The night's fateful events began to unfold when three men, having been turned away from a wedding reception, started to vandalize a nearby fence in their frustration.
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