Harry Hinkson Boon, a 33-year-old man, was working as a detective with the Pennsylvania Railroad Police Department when a routine enforcement moment in Perryville, Maryland turned suddenly violent on June 30, 1909. On railroad property that day, Boon confronted a group of four men he believed were trespassing, moving in to place them under arrest the way he�d been trained to do�quickly, decisively, and close enough to control the situation before it could scatter.
Instead of backing down
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