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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 ...Read More
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Marshal George W. Dillaway
Male
Memphis
TN
1911-12-07
53
George
Dillaway
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