On July 14, 1911, the community of Pulaski County, Kentucky, was shaken by a violent double homicide that claimed the life of 45-year-old White / Caucasian male Andrew Jackson Beatty. A Justice of the Peace, Beatty was conducting official business in a makeshift courtroom in the town of Burnside alongside Constable William F. Heath. The two officers, who had reportedly put aside a past personal rivalry to work together in law enforcement, were targeting the illegal sale of alcohol and gambling i
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