Herbert Haynes

Herbert “Hub” Haynes, 52, male, was the night policeman in Clayton, Delaware, when a sweltering August night turned violent at the railroad siding. Shortly after midnight on August 9, 1900, railroad workers reported several men riding a southbound freight in a boxcar. Haynes and other lawmen converged on the train near the Clayton station and surrounded the car. In the crush of the arrest, a struggle broke out; the assailant—described at the time as a tramp and a large man—wrenched Hayne ...