On April 15, 1905, Town Marshal John Manier, a male law officer in the small community of Pretoria, Georgia, stepped into what should have been a routine act of keeping order and never came back from it. Public accounts say he was trying to arrest a man for disturbing the peace when the encounter turned deadly and Manier was shot. In a place as small as Pretoria, the violence must have ripped through the town in an instant: a local marshal facing down a disorderly suspect, the sudden crack of gu
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