James P. McGrath, a 39-year-old White/Caucasian male, was working a routine evening foot patrol in Burlington when his path took him through the rail and lumber yards near the junction of Main and Battery Streets. As daylight faded on May 12, 1904, he moved among tracks and stacked timber at about 7:30 p.m., the industrial sprawl quiet except for the clank of couplings and the lake wind. There, an AWOL soldier lay hidden in the yard’s shadows. When McGrath closed the distance, the man opened f
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