John P. Biggers, a 65-year-old male, was the city marshal of Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, when he confronted a disturbance at a bustling street carnival during the county fair on the night of October 30, 1912. Responding to a plea from Laura Driver to have her estranged husband arrested for drunken harassment, Marshal Biggers approached the man, Dock Driver, to serve a warrant. Driver drew a pistol and shot the marshal three times; a bullet also passed through the hand of a small boy caught in the cr ...
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