On a June evening in 1908, Daniel Francis McCrea, a 22-year-old male detective for the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railroad Police, was making his rounds in the bustling Buffalo Creek rail yards near Fillmore Avenue. His time on the force had been short, only a few months, but in that time he had earned a reputation among the local criminals, having been shot at on previous occasions.
On this particular day, June 20th, McCrea, along with a New York Central officer, confronted a gro
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