Frederick A. Mirick, a store clerk and watchman, met a tragic end on August 17, 1870, in Binghamton, New York. On that fateful night, Mirick and another clerk, Gilbert S. Burrows, were asleep in their quarters above Halbert and Brothers dry goods store. The peace of the night was shattered when three men, Edward Rulloff, William T. Dexter, and Albert Jarvis, broke into the store by boring holes in the back door. The intruders intended to rob the store, but the situation quickly escalated into vi
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