John F. Campbell, a 54-year-old male of unspecified ethnicity from Greenbank, Delaware, reported for duty at the New Castle County Workhouse on October 22, 1909. Before the morning was out, the guard lay mortally wounded, a single gunshot to the head ending his life inside the walls he was sworn to watch. Accounts place the violence amid the routine of prison labor: an order given, a refusal, and then a sudden lunge for a service revolver that turned the workhouse corridor into a struggle for co
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