Seaborn J. Crook, a 27-year-old Town Marshal from Jacksonville, Alabama, met his demise on August 16, 1881. He was fatally shot in the line of duty, a tragic event that occurred under peculiar circumstances. The incident took place when the individual who had been arrested by Marshal Crook the previous day for disorderly conduct and being drunk in public encountered him again.
On the day of the incident, the subject found Marshal Crook standing in the doorway of the town hotel and initi
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