In the fading light of a late December afternoon in 1903, a pall of violence descended upon the small town of Cherryvale, Kansas. William G. Jones, a 38-year-old Caucasian male, served the community as its City Marshal. Originally from Kentucky, where he had also served as a Deputy Sheriff, Jones had made a new life for himself and his family in Kansas over the past two years.
On the afternoon of December 27th, Marshal Jones, accompanied by his deputy, set out to serve a state arrest warr
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