In the early morning hours of November 27, 1900, in Cobleskill, New York, a fifty-year-old night watchman named Mathew Wilson was making his usual rounds. At approximately 2:00 a.m., he met with a local lunch wagon operator, Charles Warner, and they observed a group of suspicious men near the First National Bank. Recognizing none of them as locals, Wilson informed Warner of his intention to retrieve his gun and instructed him to come quickly if he heard gunshots. A short time later, the sound of
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