John Thomas Foley, a 24-year-old White male, was a dedicated Prohibition Agent with a promising future ahead of him. A proud veteran of the U.S. Army who had served in World War I, he had been with the Prohibition Unit for only ten months before his untimely death. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was married and had a child.
On the evening of October 26, 1921, Foley was part of a federal raid on the Elmo Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota, an establishment suspected of housing illegal liquor
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