In the quiet hours of a Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa, on March 25, 1911, the life of Deputy Sheriff Clarence Woolman, a 33-year-old Caucasian male, was tragically cut short. He was not a resident of the city, but rather a lawman from Pottawattamie County, merely passing through on official business. His duty on this fateful trip was to transport a prisoner to the State Hospital for Inebriates in Knoxville. The two had stopped for the night, taking a room at the Kirkwood Hotel at 400 Walnut
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