John William Woods, a 30-year-old white male, was serving as a deputy sheriff in Ashley County, Arkansas, when his final call took him out to the tracks near White Station on October 17, 1913. He had gone to intercept a man who had walked away from a work crew. In the brief, volatile moments of the encounter, a shot was fired, and Woods fell mortally wounded—his end of watch recorded that Friday, the county’s quiet broken by the sound and the sudden scramble of witnesses and lawmen convergin
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