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The One-Armed Man: Murder of William A. Hunt 1893

Murder Victim William Asbury Hunt Des Moines’s First Police Chief 63-year-old Civil War Veteran Cause of Death: Bludgeoned, Pushed From a Height Motive: Robbery 1830-1893 Murder Scene and Date Alley, 600 block of Locust Street Des Moines, Iowa Polk County … Continue reading

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