In the small town of Gowrie, Iowa, a dispute on a Saturday evening in the summer escalated to a fatal conclusion for the town marshal. On July 11, 1903, Marshal Thomas Nicholson, a man of about forty-five who had lived in Gowrie for twenty-five years, was shot and killed. The incident that led to his death began with an attempt to arrest a young man named William Carr, who was around twenty-three years old at the time and had a reputation for having a violent temper, especially when intoxicated.
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