In the early morning hours of June 17, 1911, Seattle Police Officer William Cunliffe, a 45-year-old Caucasian male, was walking his beat on First Hill. The neighborhood had been troubled by a string of residential burglaries the night before, and the air was thick with a quiet tension. As he patrolled the intersection of Summit Avenue and Columbia Street, Officer Cunliffe encountered one, or possibly two, suspicious men on the street and moved to question them.
The encounter turned deadly
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