On the warm summer evening of August 8, 1908, in the town of Methuen, Massachusetts, a routine patrol turned into a tragedy that would leave a lasting scar on the community. Patrolman Charles Emerson, a White male, was diligently carrying out his duties alongside his colleague, Patrolman Francis McDermott. Their assignment that night was to patrol the Peat Meadow area, a place near Lowell and Woodland Streets where thefts of hay had become a recurring problem. The officers were there as a preven
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