Detective Samuel Ulysses Spence, a 42-year-old law enforcement officer from Bessemer, Alabama, lost his life due to a gunshot wound on September 15, 1913. The incident occurred when Detective Spence and another detective responded to a disturbance call at an establishment known as Paul's Hall.
Upon arriving at the scene, the detectives were met with gunfire from a subject. Detective Spence was struck in the side by a bullet, which severed his spinal cord and resulted in paralysis of his
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