In the quiet, early morning hours of June 22, 1933, in Alma, Arkansas, the newly elected town marshal, Henry Dallas Humphrey, was making his rounds. A 51-year-old farmer and handyman by trade, he had only been in his new role for two months, a position he took to help support his wife and three children. His patrol that night would tragically be his last, as he crossed paths with members of the infamous Barrow gang.
Earlier, two men had ambushed Humphrey outside the Commercial Bank in dow
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