ROBERT GARDNER

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Officer Rank: Deputy Marshal
Memorial Panel: 33-E: 25
Department: Jefferson County, Alabama, S.O.
End of Watch: July 17, 1908
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Gardner was one of 13 deputies who accompanied a group of strike breakers to a coal mine. A group of unionized workers attempted to get the strike breakers to leave the train and threatened to kill them if they didn't. A gunfight ensued. Deputy Gardner and a dozen miners were killed.
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