In the days just before Christmas in 1908, a small team set out in the rugged country around Artemus in Knox County, Kentucky, to carry out a warrant that sounded straightforward on paper but carried the kind of danger people only understood once the road narrowed and the voices dropped. John Brooks, a male deputized civilian whose age was not recorded in the surviving memorial summaries, had been sworn in to help Deputy Sheriff Robert B. Smith with the arrest of three men who were wanted in con
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