Harry C. Beasley, a 41-year-old white male police patrolman in Newark, Ohio, had already lived one life of danger and distinction before the night he was mortally wounded in the summer of 1931. Born and raised in Newark, he left home as a young man to join the United States Navy, serving aboard the battleship USS Florida and earning the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism during the 1914 occupation of Veracruz, Mexico. After reenlisting during World War I and rising to the rank of chief pet
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