In the small town of Dundee, New York, a young man named Jay Close, aged 21, met a tragic and untimely end on Saturday, December 24, 1910. On what should have been a festive Christmas Eve, Close, serving as a Constable, was thrust into a volatile and dangerous situation that would ultimately cost him his life. He had been a constable for only a single day.
The events of that fateful day were set in motion by a 35-year-old man who was intoxicated and causing terror on Union Street. The man
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