In the cold of a December night in 1901, the small town of Chelsea, Iowa, was shaken by a brazen crime that would claim the life of its young night marshal. Rolland P. Smith, a 23-year-old male, was making his rounds when he discovered a plot to rob the town's bank. The would-be robbers, described as a "trio of thugs," were attempting to crack the safe when Marshal Smith intervened. In the ensuing confrontation on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad tracks near the station, a struggle broke out,
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