In the late summer of 1930, the city of Little Rock was dealing with the aftermath of a jailbreak from the Pulaski County Jail. Among the lawmen tasked with tracking down the fugitives was Detective Sergeant Samuel Neal McDermott, a 31-year-old male who had been with the Little Rock Police Department for two years after serving as a deputy sheriff. While investigating behind the National Cemetery, he encountered two of the six escaped men.
During the attempt to take the two suspects into
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