William Hampton Arendale Sr., a 27-year-old male serving as town marshal of Tutwiler, Mississippi, met his death on December 24, 1912, when he was shot and killed while trying to protect a prisoner in his custody from being lynched. On what should have been an ordinary winter night in a small Delta town, the young marshal found himself standing between the rule of law he represented and a gathering intent on taking justice into its own hands. The brief surviving accounts describe a moment when a
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