In the fading light of a November evening in 1902, Kenton County Deputy Sheriff Nicholas Bodkin, a 41-year-old male, found himself called to a disturbance that would abruptly end his life. The altercation was unfolding at a saloon, situated directly across from the Covington police station on Court Avenue. Inside, an off-duty Covington policeman, Robert Brown, had been drinking and had started a quarrel with two other men. Deputy Bodkin, along with his partner, Deputy John D. McInerney, responde
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