In the late summer of 1905, the town of Haverstraw, New York, was rocked by the violent death of one of its own lawmen, Constable John Cahill. On the evening of Tuesday, August 15th, Cahill, a dedicated male officer of the Haverstraw Village Police Department, was on duty when he was fatally shot. The exact circumstances leading to the tragic event are recounted with slight variations. One account describes how Constable Cahill was investigating a disturbance, a saloon brawl that had erupted in
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