Just before summer reached full heat in Cheyenne, a 32-year-old male, Patrolman Hugh C. Petrie, stepped into a uniform he had worn for only five days.
On Saturday, June 7, 1919, the 32-year-old male was moving three suspects toward the local jail when the routine rhythm of duty shattered at the railroad crossing on Carey Avenue. In the next moments, one of the three turned a gun on the officer, and the 32-year-old male—new to the badge but not to public service—fell to gunfire in th
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