Deputy U.S. Marshal George W. Dillaway, aged 53, died on December 7, 1911, in Memphis, Tennessee. He succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained during a railroad labor dispute. Dillaway, along with another deputy marshal and a Special Policeman Victor Benner of the Illinois Central Railroad Police, were on a switch engine traveling from the McLemore Yards to the Nonconnah Yards. When the engine stopped near Horn Lake Road, several railroad guards, who had been drinking, mistakenly believed the three
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